Poodles are great dogs. You can make them look like all kinds of non-dog things. Like an aquarium:
A dragon:
And many others, but this is my personal favorite:
Weekend Art Poodle Open Comments
by
Comments
372 responses to “Weekend Art Poodle Open Comments”
-
What no one up yet? Sheesh.
-
What no one up yet? Sheesh.
-
What? You some kind of chicken rancher or something?
-
What? You some kind of chicken rancher or something?
-
Pyro, this borders on cruelty to poodle-animals. 🙂
-
Pyro, this borders on cruelty to poodle-animals. 🙂
-
-
No Unicorn?
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lckwivvw6o1qds4gvo1_500.jpg
FIFY
G’Morning all -
You some kind of chicken rancher or something?
That would be someone who went to La Grange all of the time.
-
You some kind of chicken rancher or something?
That would be someone who went to La Grange all of the time.
-
And once you get your poodle taken care of you’ll want to consider a set of these to help make your neighborhood a better place.
-
And once you get your poodle taken care of you’ll want to consider a set of these to help make your neighborhood a better place.
-
I just got caught up on the late-night postings from last night, and Sarge, I’m afraid it looks like you have not made many converts among us Couch Critters, to think more kindly and gently of the Muslim societies.
-
I just got caught up on the late-night postings from last night, and Sarge, I’m afraid it looks like you have not made many converts among us Couch Critters, to think more kindly and gently of the Muslim societies.
-
#6 Dude
I think we’ve had those called to our attention before — don’t recall in what context though. 🙂 -
#6 Dude
I think we’ve had those called to our attention before — don’t recall in what context though. 🙂 -
Good morning Hamsters. Overcast with a tinge of mist and a balmy 69 for openers at 6. This is not wonderful but at least not as London fog as yesterday morning. Also it’s probably the only natural moisture for the day.
From what I’ve seen on Ch. 11, looks like the hard work in planning and arranging the many attractions offered for the Final Four weekend succeeds. And thanks go to those who volunteer time to make it so. The weather so far has been gorgeous. Weather gods, y’all hear we need it to stay that way and not devolve into the awful mess in Arlington for Super Bowl 45. Trust that the temporary seating has been thoroughly checked out….
All kinds of allergens (from trees, flowers, dust) are attacking our area and making everybody miserable. The mares all have runny noses and weepy eyes, but then their heads are stuck down in the grass a good part of the day. Mara’s been congested by evening, so she’s getting benadryl. The live oak blossom remnants rain down on everything, make a big mess by themselves, and bring more yellow-green pollen with them, which the steady breeze distributes far and wide. A glance around the yard reveals ligustrum buds almost at the ready and the pecans not far behind. Kleenex sales will continue brisk.
-
Good morning Hamsters. Overcast with a tinge of mist and a balmy 69 for openers at 6. This is not wonderful but at least not as London fog as yesterday morning. Also it’s probably the only natural moisture for the day.
From what I’ve seen on Ch. 11, looks like the hard work in planning and arranging the many attractions offered for the Final Four weekend succeeds. And thanks go to those who volunteer time to make it so. The weather so far has been gorgeous. Weather gods, y’all hear we need it to stay that way and not devolve into the awful mess in Arlington for Super Bowl 45. Trust that the temporary seating has been thoroughly checked out….
All kinds of allergens (from trees, flowers, dust) are attacking our area and making everybody miserable. The mares all have runny noses and weepy eyes, but then their heads are stuck down in the grass a good part of the day. Mara’s been congested by evening, so she’s getting benadryl. The live oak blossom remnants rain down on everything, make a big mess by themselves, and bring more yellow-green pollen with them, which the steady breeze distributes far and wide. A glance around the yard reveals ligustrum buds almost at the ready and the pecans not far behind. Kleenex sales will continue brisk. -
Are we world class yet????Are we world class yet?????
-
Are we world class yet????Are we world class yet?????
-
Spend five of the best minutes you will ever enjoy watching video.
William F. Buckley mocking and humiliating Saul Alinsky on Firing Line in 1967.
The looks on Buckley’s face and in his eye are priceless.
One of the best shots WFB gets in is at the end.
-
Spend five of the best minutes you will ever enjoy watching video.
William F. Buckley mocking and humiliating Saul Alinsky on Firing Line in 1967.
The looks on Buckley’s face and in his eye are priceless.
One of the best shots WFB gets in is at the end.
-
#6 Doood 😀
#11 Texpat, Great!
Mornin’ Gang -
#6 Doood 😀
#11 Texpat, Great!
Mornin’ Gang -
#7 MHarper:
Apparently that bastig Jones is responsible for even more deaths as the righteously indignant Muslims in Pakistan have risen up for a second day to express their outrage at his desecration of their holy book (possibly they are also angry because he had the temerity to ignore the wishes of an Army General and the Secretary of Defense).
So far in response to the actions of a preacher in a tiny South Florida church Muslims in Pakistan have killed 4 Afghans, 4 Nepalese, 1 Swede, 1 Norwegian, and a Romanian. Apparently in the muslim faith the whole world must pay for the actions of a single man.
An interesting contrast with the Christian faith where one Man paid for the sins of the whole world.
But hey, at least that low life Jones has learned his lesson………
-
#7 MHarper:
Apparently that bastig Jones is responsible for even more deaths as the righteously indignant Muslims in Pakistan have risen up for a second day to express their outrage at his desecration of their holy book (possibly they are also angry because he had the temerity to ignore the wishes of an Army General and the Secretary of Defense).
So far in response to the actions of a preacher in a tiny South Florida church Muslims in Pakistan have killed 4 Afghans, 4 Nepalese, 1 Swede, 1 Norwegian, and a Romanian. Apparently in the muslim faith the whole world must pay for the actions of a single man.
An interesting contrast with the Christian faith where one Man paid for the sins of the whole world.
But hey, at least that low life Jones has learned his lesson……… -
There’s a squirrel on my deck and he ain’t got no drawers on.
-
There’s a squirrel on my deck and he ain’t got no drawers on.
-
What are you, the squirrel TSA?
-
What are you, the squirrel TSA?
-
Koran-burning pastor says murders of UN staff aren’t his fault.
Ms. Harper, Purina (or any other name brand) feed is expensive. I buy cheaper stuff with all of the important nutrients in it for mine. Right now my “daughters” horse needs more weight so we’re adding beet pulp to it. I use pellets with a supplement of sweet feed as well.
Hammie, that was a hoot!
-
Koran-burning pastor says murders of UN staff aren’t his fault.
Ms. Harper, Purina (or any other name brand) feed is expensive. I buy cheaper stuff with all of the important nutrients in it for mine. Right now my “daughters” horse needs more weight so we’re adding beet pulp to it. I use pellets with a supplement of sweet feed as well.
Hammie, that was a hoot! -
7 mharper42 says:
April 2, 2011 at 8:11 am
I just got caught up on the late-night postings from last night, and Sarge, I’m afraid it looks like you have not made many converts among us Couch Critters, to think more kindly and gently of the Muslim societies.That might be what other people say that I mean, but that isn’t it at all.
But it does seem that others are more content with twisting my meaning than in understanding it, so I will leave it alone.
-
7 mharper42 says:
April 2, 2011 at 8:11 am
I just got caught up on the late-night postings from last night, and Sarge, I’m afraid it looks like you have not made many converts among us Couch Critters, to think more kindly and gently of the Muslim societies.That might be what other people say that I mean, but that isn’t it at all.
But it does seem that others are more content with twisting my meaning than in understanding it, so I will leave it alone. -
Sarge:
This is what you said yesterday:
Sorry. When the commander of troops tells you that soldiersm will die if you burn a book, and then you go ahead and burn the book, you’re just as much at fault as them that did the killing.
That’s a pretty clear and unequivocal statement. You laid the blame for a bloodthirsty mob butchering 7 innocent people on the lap of a single man who did nothing more than burn some paper with ink.
Was Jones an idiot? Surely. But YOU made him equally culpable with those who, with deliberate malice aforethought, took up knives and and shed innocent blood.
And now you whine because others are “twisting” your meaning.
You’ve been apologizing for Muslims for sometime now. What’s the deal?
-
Sarge:
This is what you said yesterday:Sorry. When the commander of troops tells you that soldiersm will die if you burn a book, and then you go ahead and burn the book, you’re just as much at fault as them that did the killing.
That’s a pretty clear and unequivocal statement. You laid the blame for a bloodthirsty mob butchering 7 innocent people on the lap of a single man who did nothing more than burn some paper with ink.
Was Jones an idiot? Surely. But YOU made him equally culpable with those who, with deliberate malice aforethought, took up knives and and shed innocent blood.
And now you whine because others are “twisting” your meaning.
You’ve been apologizing for Muslims for sometime now. What’s the deal? -
I am posting from Best Buy internet TV. The hard drive crashed at home. Probably won’t fix it until a few days. 🙁 Take care, y’all.
-
I am posting from Best Buy internet TV. The hard drive crashed at home. Probably won’t fix it until a few days. 🙁 Take care, y’all.
-
#19 Darren
Sorry to hear that, Darren, we’ve missed you. I was going to recommend an internet connection method immortalized in Doonesbury in 2002. Zeke was caught by a homeowner, parked outside the guy’s home and stealing his wi-fi to get his laptop online. I actually found a scan posted of that long-ago Sunday color strip, but it is way to small to read. -
#19 Darren
Sorry to hear that, Darren, we’ve missed you. I was going to recommend an internet connection method immortalized in Doonesbury in 2002. Zeke was caught by a homeowner, parked outside the guy’s home and stealing his wi-fi to get his laptop online. I actually found a scan posted of that long-ago Sunday color strip, but it is way to small to read. -
That’s a pretty clear and unequivocal statement. You laid the blame for a bloodthirsty mob butchering 7 innocent people on the lap of a single man who did nothing more than burn some paper with ink.
No. I did not. I said they were both guilty. That’s what
you’re just as much at fault as them that did the killing.
means.
Was Jones an idiot? Surely. But YOU made him equally culpable with those who, with deliberate malice aforethought, took up knives and and shed innocent blood.
You get5 closer to my meaning with that statement, but he would have been an idiot only if he had not know what would result from his actions. It is clear from his statements that “his point was proven” that he knew exactly what would result, even if the commanders of the troops hadn’t told hime. That is the very definition of malice aforethought.
This is not a case of blaming the rape victim for the clithes she is wearing. This is a case of a mother dressing her 12 year old up in a bikini then sending her to live with a pediphile knowing that a case of viagra was delivered to his house.
I am not apologizing for muslims. Never have. Not my point. Here are two posts from Milbloggers that do a better job than I have.
This first one is from a guy who is—what’s the phrase—oh yeah—a guy pinned down by sniper fire in Helmand Province, lying in a ditch, praying the air cover shows up before any more of his guys get picked off. Its sent to us via Greyhawk who recently completed a tour.
Burning the Koran is going to f**k us all up over here. REALLY bad idea. Unless what you’re trying to do is cause a mess. Be prepared for some serious shit that we over here seriously don’t need. Not kidding.
And yes, the Afghans are aware and waiting to see what happens. No, they are not happy. Yes, it does matter. No, I’m not kidding and I’ve not gone native. All humor aside, it is important and not a single person is going to do anything to stop them from costing lives. My honest appraisal is that it will cost lives and turn people who take this very seriously against us. Needlessly.
The next comes from This Ain’t Hell, another Milblogger who has completed tours in the Middle East. He disagrees with me on one point, but emphatically agrees on my main point.
While I agree that there’s no one in this country who bears responsibility for these murders, I hope this serves to influence people in this country to stop poking the “religion of peace” bear.
If they were slaughtering each other, I’d have the same view that I have of inner city violence here in this country – let ‘em have at it. But when innocent people get beheaded, it’s time to step back from the whole “making a point” thing. Yeah, we get the point.
Then there’s this lady who does lack the military credentials of the LST Braintrust, but who’s voice we probably should hear.
I hope the pastor in Florida, Terry Jones, seriously thinks & prays over his intending actions. My husband along with thousands of other soldiers are out there fighting the war against the Taliban, they do not need some Church’s help to prove any point! one man & his flock of 50 people against the whole world!! First of all, does he preach Christianity? because I’m pretty sure his intentions are not teachings of the holy bible. OK yeah some Muslims have done harm to Americans & other nationals but does that make him any different? He as a Reverend should absolutely know better! and there is nothing no one can do to stop him because of the constitution & his rights. He has those rights because he is an American, uphold your American values Mr Jones! If any as 1 American in the world gets killed because of retaliation I hope he knows that life will be on his head, that was his wrongdoing to provoke unnecessary violence against the Americans especially our troops. Yes we are all tired of some Muslims & their radical acts which they do in the name of their holy book but that is why we have our troops out there fighting for us, for him! If he goes through with his ridiculous plans he is no better than the terrorists & should be exiled & stripped of his US citizenship because he does not represent or uphold what a true American is. Peace & Love.
Shannon came closest to my meaning last weekend (or was it Monday, I don’t recall). Apparently that wasn’t good enough for a few folks here. We have now gotten to the point where some of them sat that if a Commander contacts them and asks them not to do something because it will endanger his troops, he’s being unreasonable and dam near dictatorial.
Terry Jones knew what would happen. Ev erybody here knew what would happen. for that reason, he should not have done it, and for that reason he shares guilt with those that did the killing.
I’m done. I’ll not respond on this subject any longer. When folks go so far as to say that they think a commander asking people to forswear actions that will endanger his troops has gone too far, is pulling a stunt, or is ignorant, I know that minds like that will resist any appeals to reason.
-
That’s a pretty clear and unequivocal statement. You laid the blame for a bloodthirsty mob butchering 7 innocent people on the lap of a single man who did nothing more than burn some paper with ink.
No. I did not. I said they were both guilty. That’s what
you’re just as much at fault as them that did the killing.
means.Was Jones an idiot? Surely. But YOU made him equally culpable with those who, with deliberate malice aforethought, took up knives and and shed innocent blood.
You get5 closer to my meaning with that statement, but he would have been an idiot only if he had not know what would result from his actions. It is clear from his statements that “his point was proven” that he knew exactly what would result, even if the commanders of the troops hadn’t told hime. That is the very definition of malice aforethought.
This is not a case of blaming the rape victim for the clithes she is wearing. This is a case of a mother dressing her 12 year old up in a bikini then sending her to live with a pediphile knowing that a case of viagra was delivered to his house.
I am not apologizing for muslims. Never have. Not my point. Here are two posts from Milbloggers that do a better job than I have.
This first one is from a guy who is—what’s the phrase—oh yeah—a guy pinned down by sniper fire in Helmand Province, lying in a ditch, praying the air cover shows up before any more of his guys get picked off. Its sent to us via Greyhawk who recently completed a tour.Burning the Koran is going to f**k us all up over here. REALLY bad idea. Unless what you’re trying to do is cause a mess. Be prepared for some serious shit that we over here seriously don’t need. Not kidding.
And yes, the Afghans are aware and waiting to see what happens. No, they are not happy. Yes, it does matter. No, I’m not kidding and I’ve not gone native. All humor aside, it is important and not a single person is going to do anything to stop them from costing lives. My honest appraisal is that it will cost lives and turn people who take this very seriously against us. Needlessly.The next comes from This Ain’t Hell, another Milblogger who has completed tours in the Middle East. He disagrees with me on one point, but emphatically agrees on my main point.
While I agree that there’s no one in this country who bears responsibility for these murders, I hope this serves to influence people in this country to stop poking the “religion of peace” bear.
If they were slaughtering each other, I’d have the same view that I have of inner city violence here in this country – let ‘em have at it. But when innocent people get beheaded, it’s time to step back from the whole “making a point” thing. Yeah, we get the point.Then there’s this lady who does lack the military credentials of the LST Braintrust, but who’s voice we probably should hear.
I hope the pastor in Florida, Terry Jones, seriously thinks & prays over his intending actions. My husband along with thousands of other soldiers are out there fighting the war against the Taliban, they do not need some Church’s help to prove any point! one man & his flock of 50 people against the whole world!! First of all, does he preach Christianity? because I’m pretty sure his intentions are not teachings of the holy bible. OK yeah some Muslims have done harm to Americans & other nationals but does that make him any different? He as a Reverend should absolutely know better! and there is nothing no one can do to stop him because of the constitution & his rights. He has those rights because he is an American, uphold your American values Mr Jones! If any as 1 American in the world gets killed because of retaliation I hope he knows that life will be on his head, that was his wrongdoing to provoke unnecessary violence against the Americans especially our troops. Yes we are all tired of some Muslims & their radical acts which they do in the name of their holy book but that is why we have our troops out there fighting for us, for him! If he goes through with his ridiculous plans he is no better than the terrorists & should be exiled & stripped of his US citizenship because he does not represent or uphold what a true American is. Peace & Love.
Shannon came closest to my meaning last weekend (or was it Monday, I don’t recall). Apparently that wasn’t good enough for a few folks here. We have now gotten to the point where some of them sat that if a Commander contacts them and asks them not to do something because it will endanger his troops, he’s being unreasonable and dam near dictatorial.
Terry Jones knew what would happen. Ev erybody here knew what would happen. for that reason, he should not have done it, and for that reason he shares guilt with those that did the killing.
I’m done. I’ll not respond on this subject any longer. When folks go so far as to say that they think a commander asking people to forswear actions that will endanger his troops has gone too far, is pulling a stunt, or is ignorant, I know that minds like that will resist any appeals to reason. -
#11 Texpat
Wonderful video. Very nostalgic to see Buckley again in his oh-so-handsome younger days. Jarring to see cigarette smoke billowing up on screen.Alinsky on the other hand had the cold, detached demeanor I would expect of that biology prof PZ Myers (he of the “I look at dead baby pictures and see meat” POV). Guess I expected more of a firebrand persona. I have not read Alinksky nor had I ever seen him before.
-
#11 Texpat
Wonderful video. Very nostalgic to see Buckley again in his oh-so-handsome younger days. Jarring to see cigarette smoke billowing up on screen.
Alinsky on the other hand had the cold, detached demeanor I would expect of that biology prof PZ Myers (he of the “I look at dead baby pictures and see meat” POV). Guess I expected more of a firebrand persona. I have not read Alinksky nor had I ever seen him before. -
#21 Mharper
And the way Alinsky called religion a “racket”. Maybe the term has changed, but when I hear that someone is engaged in a “racket,” I get visions of shysters, crooks, and con artists.
-
#21 Mharper
And the way Alinsky called religion a “racket”. Maybe the term has changed, but when I hear that someone is engaged in a “racket,” I get visions of shysters, crooks, and con artists. -
#16 ST
Ah, so there is a “Purina Horse Chow”. I thought there must be, though they don’t stock it at my local Krogers. 🙂I had a summer research job at UT-Austin (long ago) that was next door to a primate study area. They fed ’em “Purina Monkey Chow” plus fresh fruit and vegetables.
Me, the closest I ever got to horse feed is I bought 10 bales of hay for an HOA hayride couple years ago. Bought it at a feed store inside the loop just off I-10. (Strange location for a feed store.) After the hayride, I hauled the same bales down to the SPCA and donated it for rescued horses in their barn.
-
#16 ST
Ah, so there is a “Purina Horse Chow”. I thought there must be, though they don’t stock it at my local Krogers. 🙂
I had a summer research job at UT-Austin (long ago) that was next door to a primate study area. They fed ’em “Purina Monkey Chow” plus fresh fruit and vegetables.
Me, the closest I ever got to horse feed is I bought 10 bales of hay for an HOA hayride couple years ago. Bought it at a feed store inside the loop just off I-10. (Strange location for a feed store.) After the hayride, I hauled the same bales down to the SPCA and donated it for rescued horses in their barn. -
#22 TT
And the way Alinsky called religion a “racket”. Maybe the term has changed, but when I hear that someone is engaged in a “racket,” I get visions of shysters, crooks, and con artists.
The term hasn’t changed, that was Alinsky’s insulting assessment of someone making a living from religion.
-
#22 TT
And the way Alinsky called religion a “racket”. Maybe the term has changed, but when I hear that someone is engaged in a “racket,” I get visions of shysters, crooks, and con artists.
The term hasn’t changed, that was Alinsky’s insulting assessment of someone making a living from religion.
-
post in the bucket
-
post in the bucket
-
But it does seem that others are more content with twisting my meaning than in understanding it,
What a load of bologna. You said what you said and I make it a practice to read the little black words and ignore the white space between the lines. There is no mistaking that you believe it is okay for Generals to go in an official capacity to a civilians place of business to plead with said civilian not to do what ever they are gonna do.
My stance is this is completely unacceptable and amounts to an act of cowardice in the face of the enemy. We are talking two COMMAND GRADE OFFICERS OF THE MILITARY. Are you kidding me?
No Serge’ NO ONE misunderstood what you said or meant. Please do not insult me again with that type of statement.
-
But it does seem that others are more content with twisting my meaning than in understanding it,
What a load of bologna. You said what you said and I make it a practice to read the little black words and ignore the white space between the lines. There is no mistaking that you believe it is okay for Generals to go in an official capacity to a civilians place of business to plead with said civilian not to do what ever they are gonna do.
My stance is this is completely unacceptable and amounts to an act of cowardice in the face of the enemy. We are talking two COMMAND GRADE OFFICERS OF THE MILITARY. Are you kidding me?
No Serge’ NO ONE misunderstood what you said or meant. Please do not insult me again with that type of statement. -
Oh and lest I seem ungrateful
I would like to thank the management staff and front pagers of Hamous.org for bringing back the Modify/Delete
buttonswords. -
Oh and lest I seem ungrateful
I would like to thank the management staff and front pagers of Hamous.org for bringing back the Modify/Deletebuttonswords. -
Sarge:
This is what you said yesterday:
Sorry. When the commander of troops tells you that soldiersm will die if you burn a book, and then you go ahead and burn the book, you’re just as much at fault as them that did the killing.
That’s a pretty clear and unequivocal statement. You laid the blame for a bloodthirsty mob butchering 7 innocent people on the lap of a single man who did nothing more than burn some paper with ink.
No. I did not lay the blame at his feet. I made him equally to blame. Thats what
you’re just as much at fault as them that did the killing.
means.Was Jones an idiot? Surely. But YOU made him equally culpable with those who, with deliberate malice aforethought, took up knives and and shed innocent blood.
If you can prove to me that Jones did not know death would result from his act, then I will go along with you’re estimation that he is merely an idiot. But I doubt that anybody here had any doubt what would happen. This is not a case of a rape victim being blamed for the rape because of the clothes she was wearing, this is a case of a mother dressing her 12 year old in a bikini then sending her to live with a registered pedophile knowing that a case of viagra and a keg of beer had just been delivered to his house.
Jones knew what would happen. You knew what would happen. He was begged by the commander of the troops not to, and was told why. he was under no misapprehension as to what would happen. He did it anyway.
And now you whine because others are “twisting” your meaning.
You’ve been apologizing for Muslims for sometime now. What’s the deal?
I haven’t made any apologies. Shannon understood my meaning very well a few days ago. What followed was a very feindly exchange of ideas that I thought was productive. Others apparently didn’t think so.
Here’s something from a guy who, at the time he sent this was a guy pinned down by sniper fire in Helmand Province, lying in a ditch, praying the air cover shows up before any more of his guys get picked off, hoping the JAG officers back in DC decide it’s okay to clear the ROE so the A10 gunners can save their lives:
The whole thing’s a story I was going to stay out of. But I got an email from a friend in Afghanistan who’s a long way down the totem pole from General Petraeus, and thought I’d share.
Burning the Koran is going to f**k us all up over here. REALLY bad idea. Unless what you’re trying to do is cause a mess. Be prepared for some serious shit that we over here seriously don’t need. Not kidding.
And yes, the Afghans are aware and waiting to see what happens. No, they are not happy. Yes, it does matter. No, I’m not kidding and I’ve not gone native. All humor aside, it is important and not a single person is going to do anything to stop them from costing lives. My honest appraisal is that it will cost lives and turn people who take this very seriously against us. Needlessly.
So, there you have the thoughts of a guy who’s actually engaged in defending freedom from extremists – at risk of life and limb. Personally I consider that at least as worthwhile as the opinions of those who enjoy the fruits of his labors, or are hypothetically willing to join the fight as demonstrated by their courageous typings on the innernets.
Meanwhile…
-
Sarge:
This is what you said yesterday:Sorry. When the commander of troops tells you that soldiersm will die if you burn a book, and then you go ahead and burn the book, you’re just as much at fault as them that did the killing.
That’s a pretty clear and unequivocal statement. You laid the blame for a bloodthirsty mob butchering 7 innocent people on the lap of a single man who did nothing more than burn some paper with ink.
No. I did not lay the blame at his feet. I made him equally to blame. Thats what
you’re just as much at fault as them that did the killing.
means.Was Jones an idiot? Surely. But YOU made him equally culpable with those who, with deliberate malice aforethought, took up knives and and shed innocent blood.
If you can prove to me that Jones did not know death would result from his act, then I will go along with you’re estimation that he is merely an idiot. But I doubt that anybody here had any doubt what would happen. This is not a case of a rape victim being blamed for the rape because of the clothes she was wearing, this is a case of a mother dressing her 12 year old in a bikini then sending her to live with a registered pedophile knowing that a case of viagra and a keg of beer had just been delivered to his house.
Jones knew what would happen. You knew what would happen. He was begged by the commander of the troops not to, and was told why. he was under no misapprehension as to what would happen. He did it anyway.And now you whine because others are “twisting” your meaning.
You’ve been apologizing for Muslims for sometime now. What’s the deal?I haven’t made any apologies. Shannon understood my meaning very well a few days ago. What followed was a very feindly exchange of ideas that I thought was productive. Others apparently didn’t think so.
Here’s something from a guy who, at the time he sent this was a guy pinned down by sniper fire in Helmand Province, lying in a ditch, praying the air cover shows up before any more of his guys get picked off, hoping the JAG officers back in DC decide it’s okay to clear the ROE so the A10 gunners can save their lives:The whole thing’s a story I was going to stay out of. But I got an email from a friend in Afghanistan who’s a long way down the totem pole from General Petraeus, and thought I’d share.
Burning the Koran is going to f**k us all up over here. REALLY bad idea. Unless what you’re trying to do is cause a mess. Be prepared for some serious shit that we over here seriously don’t need. Not kidding.
And yes, the Afghans are aware and waiting to see what happens. No, they are not happy. Yes, it does matter. No, I’m not kidding and I’ve not gone native. All humor aside, it is important and not a single person is going to do anything to stop them from costing lives. My honest appraisal is that it will cost lives and turn people who take this very seriously against us. Needlessly.So, there you have the thoughts of a guy who’s actually engaged in defending freedom from extremists – at risk of life and limb. Personally I consider that at least as worthwhile as the opinions of those who enjoy the fruits of his labors, or are hypothetically willing to join the fight as demonstrated by their courageous typings on the innernets.
Meanwhile… -
From the comments section of the above link:
I’m more than a little disgusted with all the tough guys on the internets who shout for the burnings even while displaying a willful blindness for the potential consequences our men and women, those people who are actually in the $8!+, will have to face, as your friend points out.
It’s not about the right to burn the damned books, it’s about the wisdom of doing so while you’re safely in the bosom of mother USA. Now if these folk want to take the books, gas and matches to any of the multitudes of 1/4 star resorts in the ME and light em up, bravo om em!
We all know that’s not going to happen, yet, these same cage fighters, similar to Napoleon Dynamite’s brother no doubt, have the audacious bravado to trash General Petraeus for pointing out the obvious.
I may be a bit long in the tooth and ought to know better, but I can’t help but wonder, from whence did this current crop of warrior-philosophers-typists spring?
I don’t recall that many voluntarily signing up for military service when I was a young man these 40 some odd years ago. Nor do the current numbers support a claim for their willingness to put on the uniform now.
I no longer recognize large segments of the thoughtless population who live in my country. Many look to me to be a lot like wild jackals, yipping and yapping in circling packs.
To paraphrase another gentleman,”walking shadows, poor players who strut and fret their hour upon the stage and then are heard no more: it is a tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
-
From the comments section of the above link:
I’m more than a little disgusted with all the tough guys on the internets who shout for the burnings even while displaying a willful blindness for the potential consequences our men and women, those people who are actually in the $8!+, will have to face, as your friend points out.
It’s not about the right to burn the damned books, it’s about the wisdom of doing so while you’re safely in the bosom of mother USA. Now if these folk want to take the books, gas and matches to any of the multitudes of 1/4 star resorts in the ME and light em up, bravo om em!
We all know that’s not going to happen, yet, these same cage fighters, similar to Napoleon Dynamite’s brother no doubt, have the audacious bravado to trash General Petraeus for pointing out the obvious.
I may be a bit long in the tooth and ought to know better, but I can’t help but wonder, from whence did this current crop of warrior-philosophers-typists spring?
I don’t recall that many voluntarily signing up for military service when I was a young man these 40 some odd years ago. Nor do the current numbers support a claim for their willingness to put on the uniform now.
I no longer recognize large segments of the thoughtless population who live in my country. Many look to me to be a lot like wild jackals, yipping and yapping in circling packs.
To paraphrase another gentleman,”walking shadows, poor players who strut and fret their hour upon the stage and then are heard no more: it is a tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” -
Another veteran of the middle east disagrees with me on one point,but emphatically agrees with me on my main point:
While I agree that there’s no one in this country who bears responsibility for these murders, I hope this serves to influence people in this country to stop poking the “religion of peace” bear.
If they were slaughtering each other, I’d have the same view that I have of inner city violence here in this country – let ‘em have at it. But when innocent people get beheaded, it’s time to step back from the whole “making a point” thing. Yeah, we get the point.
Shannon got my point a few days ago. We had a fruitfull and freindly discussion afterwards, where everybody was respectful of each other. Some folks don’t want that to be my point. They want to portray me as a bad person, and my real point doesn’t make me as bad a person as they want me to look like.
-
Another veteran of the middle east disagrees with me on one point,but emphatically agrees with me on my main point:
While I agree that there’s no one in this country who bears responsibility for these murders, I hope this serves to influence people in this country to stop poking the “religion of peace” bear.
If they were slaughtering each other, I’d have the same view that I have of inner city violence here in this country – let ‘em have at it. But when innocent people get beheaded, it’s time to step back from the whole “making a point” thing. Yeah, we get the point.Shannon got my point a few days ago. We had a fruitfull and freindly discussion afterwards, where everybody was respectful of each other. Some folks don’t want that to be my point. They want to portray me as a bad person, and my real point doesn’t make me as bad a person as they want me to look like.
-
I dunno.
Maybe that guy who sent that email to Greyhawk (who had just completed a tour when that post was written) was exercising undue authority, pulling a stunt, or is just being an apologist for muslims.
After all, we know that the only thing that matters is what the guy pinned down by sniper fire in Helmand Province thinks, lying in a ditch, praying the air cover shows up before any more of his guys get picked off, hoping the JAG officers back in DC decide it’s okay to clear the ROE so the A10 gunners can save their lives.
Oh wait.
He is one of those guys.
-
I dunno.
Maybe that guy who sent that email to Greyhawk (who had just completed a tour when that post was written) was exercising undue authority, pulling a stunt, or is just being an apologist for muslims.
After all, we know that the only thing that matters is what the guy pinned down by sniper fire in Helmand Province thinks, lying in a ditch, praying the air cover shows up before any more of his guys get picked off, hoping the JAG officers back in DC decide it’s okay to clear the ROE so the A10 gunners can save their lives.
Oh wait.
He is one of those guys. -
#28 Sarge
Also a comment from your link (emphasis mine):man_in_tx
Yes. I care for the troops, but you folks are permitting the Muslim tail to wag the American dog. I am not buying it: Why do you fall for the manipulators’s line of If you do such-and-so, I will throw a fit. -
#28 Sarge
Also a comment from your link (emphasis mine):man_in_tx
Yes. I care for the troops, but you folks are permitting the Muslim tail to wag the American dog. I am not buying it: Why do you fall for the manipulators’s line of If you do such-and-so, I will throw a fit. -
Sarge:
Some folks don’t want that to be my point. They want to portray me as a bad person, and my real point doesn’t make me as bad a person as they want me to look like.
Not to belabor a point but. . . quit yer whinin’!!!
Nobody thinks your a bad person, but on this issue pretty much everybody agrees that you are simply wrong. Get the difference? Not bad, not evil, just … wrong. It’s okay, everybody is wrong once in a while (except maybe texpat).
And, just to try one more time to help you clarify things – nobody is saying that Jones is a good guy. He probably shouldn’t have done what he did. He’s a 2 bit boogerhead with delusions of grandeur. But making him responsible for a mob attack in Afghanistan is (a.) giving him more power than he actually has and (b.) relieving the actual perpetrators of their responsibility.
-
Sarge:
Some folks don’t want that to be my point. They want to portray me as a bad person, and my real point doesn’t make me as bad a person as they want me to look like.
Not to belabor a point but. . . quit yer whinin’!!!
Nobody thinks your a bad person, but on this issue pretty much everybody agrees that you are simply wrong. Get the difference? Not bad, not evil, just … wrong. It’s okay, everybody is wrong once in a while (except maybe texpat).
And, just to try one more time to help you clarify things – nobody is saying that Jones is a good guy. He probably shouldn’t have done what he did. He’s a 2 bit boogerhead with delusions of grandeur. But making him responsible for a mob attack in Afghanistan is (a.) giving him more power than he actually has and (b.) relieving the actual perpetrators of their responsibility. -
We had a fruitfull and freindly discussion afterwards, where everybody was respectful of each other. Some folks don’t want that to be my point. They want to portray me as a bad person, and my real point doesn’t make me as bad a person as they want me to look like.
Oh cool we disagree and now I am disrespectful. Where oh where did I try to portray you as a bad person?
Want some cheese with that whine?
So let me sum this up. You have lost the argument and want to portray those of us that disagree as being disrespectful. Sad Serge’ real sad.
-
We had a fruitfull and freindly discussion afterwards, where everybody was respectful of each other. Some folks don’t want that to be my point. They want to portray me as a bad person, and my real point doesn’t make me as bad a person as they want me to look like.
Oh cool we disagree and now I am disrespectful. Where oh where did I try to portray you as a bad person?
Want some cheese with that whine?
So let me sum this up. You have lost the argument and want to portray those of us that disagree as being disrespectful. Sad Serge’ real sad. -
They want to portray me as a bad person, and my real point doesn’t make me as bad a person as they want me to look like.
Dragging lumber up a stony hill is unbecoming, Sarge. No one’s putting words in your mouth. You said what you said.
But suppose a man exercises his 1st amendment rights and draws a Mohamed cartoon. Islamofascists warn us there will be blood if he does but he goes ahead and publishes the cartoon. Does he have just as much blood on his hands as the murdering Islamofascist savages? Suppose another man uses a gravatar of Mohamed as bombhead. This will surely inflame the savages too. If some two-bit preacher from rural Alachua County can cause such a stir should I be held culpable for the use of Bombhead Mo?
Either we have a 1st Amendment or we don’t. Or as a commenter on Mudville said:
…a right not exercised under duress is a right that is surrendered.
-
They want to portray me as a bad person, and my real point doesn’t make me as bad a person as they want me to look like.
Dragging lumber up a stony hill is unbecoming, Sarge. No one’s putting words in your mouth. You said what you said.
But suppose a man exercises his 1st amendment rights and draws a Mohamed cartoon. Islamofascists warn us there will be blood if he does but he goes ahead and publishes the cartoon. Does he have just as much blood on his hands as the murdering Islamofascist savages? Suppose another man uses a gravatar of Mohamed as bombhead. This will surely inflame the savages too. If some two-bit preacher from rural Alachua County can cause such a stir should I be held culpable for the use of Bombhead Mo?
Either we have a 1st Amendment or we don’t. Or as a commenter on Mudville said:…a right not exercised under duress is a right that is surrendered.
-
In honor of making your dog look stupid I would like to submit my entry into “making your dog look stupid”.
-
In honor of making your dog look stupid I would like to submit my entry into “making your dog look stupid”.
-
Here Sarge someone made a song just for you.
-
Here Sarge someone made a song just for you.
-
re: #36,
Emmersome nice puppies right there.
🙂
-
re: #36,
Emmersome nice puppies right there.
🙂 -
Americans are not fighting and dying around the world waiting for murderous idiots and morons to decide it is okay for Americans at home to come out from cowering in their homes, expecting directives from military officers, to obey the orders from the Pentagon.
If there are American military personnel putting their lives on the line thinking their fellow citizens should be bowing to the latest fatwas and hypersensitivities of some toothless, fully psychotic Imam in the foothills of the Hindu Kush, then, well, maybe they ought to find some other line of work.
This is foolish and ridiculous and I refuse to participate.
If the sanctimomious and questionable judgement of uncertifiable commenters at Mil.bloggers is going to be the test of American grit, then you can count me out.
#33 FA
Thanks, I’ve been telling Shannon all my life I’m never wrong, but he just never seems to get the message. Little brothers are just one of life’s persistent aggravations.
-
Americans are not fighting and dying around the world waiting for murderous idiots and morons to decide it is okay for Americans at home to come out from cowering in their homes, expecting directives from military officers, to obey the orders from the Pentagon.
If there are American military personnel putting their lives on the line thinking their fellow citizens should be bowing to the latest fatwas and hypersensitivities of some toothless, fully psychotic Imam in the foothills of the Hindu Kush, then, well, maybe they ought to find some other line of work.
This is foolish and ridiculous and I refuse to participate.
If the sanctimomious and questionable judgement of uncertifiable commenters at Mil.bloggers is going to be the test of American grit, then you can count me out.
#33 FA
Thanks, I’ve been telling Shannon all my life I’m never wrong, but he just never seems to get the message. Little brothers are just one of life’s persistent aggravations. -
doooob
#38Yup,
I posted that on LST front page one Saturday and caused Benzion to have a heart attack.
-
doooob
#38
Yup,
I posted that on LST front page one Saturday and caused Benzion to have a heart attack. -
ION……..Kid who was charged with hate crime is a……..
/still scratching my head about this and “Purina Monkey Chow.”
-
ION……..Kid who was charged with hate crime is a……..
/still scratching my head about this and “Purina Monkey Chow.” -
Sarge
#31Yeah uh huh that same guy is sitting there saying to himself
“That damn Jones, if it was not for the likes of him I could be sitting back at home pinching my ol lady’s butt and slamming down a few brewskis”.
/Not
-
Sarge
#31
Yeah uh huh that same guy is sitting there saying to himself“That damn Jones, if it was not for the likes of him I could be sitting back at home pinching my ol lady’s butt and slamming down a few brewskis”.
/Not
-
I had a pet squirrel monkey in the late ’60s. Purina had monkey chow back then. Just had to special order it. He would eat anything, which is what lead to his demise. Apparently roach tablets aren’t good for squirrel monkeys.
-
I had a pet squirrel monkey in the late ’60s. Purina had monkey chow back then. Just had to special order it. He would eat anything, which is what lead to his demise. Apparently roach tablets aren’t good for squirrel monkeys.
-
They didn’t have squirrel monkey underpants back then.
-
They didn’t have squirrel monkey underpants back then.
-
Ooooooo…….Oooooooo…….Ahhhhhhh…… /curls toes
-
Ooooooo…….Oooooooo…….Ahhhhhhh…… /curls toes
-
And it is primate dry.
-
And it is primate dry.
-
My mom would not let me have a monkey. She said I already had two brothers.
-
My mom would not let me have a monkey. She said I already had two brothers.
-
#41 ST:
You think that’s nuts, apparently those nice people in Afghanistan who are so upset about Terry Jones’ blasphemy got so mad today that they killed another 9 Afghans.
Texpat, you have my sympathy. I actually have twin kid brothers. They made childhood something of a trial, but made it easier to deal with boogerheads as an adult.
-
#41 ST:
You think that’s nuts, apparently those nice people in Afghanistan who are so upset about Terry Jones’ blasphemy got so mad today that they killed another 9 Afghans.
Texpat, you have my sympathy. I actually have twin kid brothers. They made childhood something of a trial, but made it easier to deal with boogerheads as an adult. -
I posted that on LST front page one Saturday and caused Benzion to have a heart attack.
Heh! I can see where that one wouldn’t pass the Benzene Test. BTW, how’s he been lately? Anyone talked to him?
Also Squawk, I haven’t forgotten about my dinner offer for you and BSue. I fully intended for it to be a few months ago, but some personal crap has entered the picture (way more than I want to go into here) that’s kept me hopping from one foot to the other. Anyhoo, hopefully we can do it before too long once things calm down around here a little.
Best,
Dude -
I posted that on LST front page one Saturday and caused Benzion to have a heart attack.
Heh! I can see where that one wouldn’t pass the Benzene Test. BTW, how’s he been lately? Anyone talked to him?
Also Squawk, I haven’t forgotten about my dinner offer for you and BSue. I fully intended for it to be a few months ago, but some personal crap has entered the picture (way more than I want to go into here) that’s kept me hopping from one foot to the other. Anyhoo, hopefully we can do it before too long once things calm down around here a little.
Best,
Dude -
boood
#49
DB is doing well. He is staying busy and most of all out of trouble, 🙂Not to worry, we will get together when time allows. Life has a habit of inserting itself in things we would like to do.
Best to ya
Squawk -
boood
#49
DB is doing well. He is staying busy and most of all out of trouble, 🙂
Not to worry, we will get together when time allows. Life has a habit of inserting itself in things we would like to do.
Best to ya
Squawk -
Without wading too deeply into the Terry Jones thing here, the people who bear the ultimate responsibility for the perpetration of violent acts are the perpetrators themselves. That’s as much as needs to be said.
-
Without wading too deeply into the Terry Jones thing here, the people who bear the ultimate responsibility for the perpetration of violent acts are the perpetrators themselves. That’s as much as needs to be said.
-
Tex Fat Pat Albert
I have two younger brothers. I got them both buffaloed to this day. -
Tex Fat Pat Albert
I have two younger brothers. I got them both buffaloed to this day. -
I tell you guys what you do now.
You’ve been pretty good at doing this with me. Now, bravely go over to Greyhawk’s site and tell him how wrong he is. Convince readers that he’s just an apologist for the muslims, a dupe for CIAR, and is just plain foolish. Convince that young platoon leader who sent him that email how wrong he is.
Texpat, I want you especially to go and tell him why he and his fellows are fighting that war, and how its perefectly OK for us over here to burn Koran’s because that’s why he’s there. See if you can get ahold of that platoon leader and let him know that he’s fighting for Terry Jones’ right to burn a Koran, and how happy he should be that Terry exercised his right, because if we don’t let him, it means we’re losing the war.
You’ve done such a good job over here, I’m sure you’ll do very well over there.
While you’re at it, go tell this lady the same things.
I do note that not one of you guys has yet had the ballz to answer this question:
If General Petreaus called you and asked you not to do something because it might endanger his troops, would you do it?
We already know that you think he’s being dictatorial and misusing his position by doing it, and that we shouldn’t run our lives because a general says his troops might get killed if we do something, but you’ve only done that to avoid the question.
But if you won’t answer it, I’ll know that its because you wouldn’t do it. You just don’t want to say so because then you’d have to give an inch in this discussion.
Secretary Gates knew people would die if Terry Jones burned that Koran, and asked him not to.
General Petreuas knew that people would die if Terry Jones burned that Koran and asked him not to.
That young man who emailed Greyhawk knew people would die if Terry Jones burned that Koran, and said so in the way on ly a soldier can.
All of us here knew that people would die as soon as Terry Jones burned that Koran.
Terry Jones knew that people would die if he burned the Koran.
This is not a case of a rape victim being blamed for the clothes she was wearing. This is a case of a mother dressing her 12 year old in a bikini and sending her to live with a registered sex offender knowing that a case of viagra and a keg of beer had just been delivered to his house.
We all knew what would happen when Terry Jones burned that Koran. Terry Jones is guilty because he knew and did it anyway.
-
I tell you guys what you do now.
You’ve been pretty good at doing this with me. Now, bravely go over to Greyhawk’s site and tell him how wrong he is. Convince readers that he’s just an apologist for the muslims, a dupe for CIAR, and is just plain foolish. Convince that young platoon leader who sent him that email how wrong he is.
Texpat, I want you especially to go and tell him why he and his fellows are fighting that war, and how its perefectly OK for us over here to burn Koran’s because that’s why he’s there. See if you can get ahold of that platoon leader and let him know that he’s fighting for Terry Jones’ right to burn a Koran, and how happy he should be that Terry exercised his right, because if we don’t let him, it means we’re losing the war.
You’ve done such a good job over here, I’m sure you’ll do very well over there.
While you’re at it, go tell this lady the same things.
I do note that not one of you guys has yet had the ballz to answer this question:
If General Petreaus called you and asked you not to do something because it might endanger his troops, would you do it?
We already know that you think he’s being dictatorial and misusing his position by doing it, and that we shouldn’t run our lives because a general says his troops might get killed if we do something, but you’ve only done that to avoid the question.
But if you won’t answer it, I’ll know that its because you wouldn’t do it. You just don’t want to say so because then you’d have to give an inch in this discussion.
Secretary Gates knew people would die if Terry Jones burned that Koran, and asked him not to.
General Petreuas knew that people would die if Terry Jones burned that Koran and asked him not to.
That young man who emailed Greyhawk knew people would die if Terry Jones burned that Koran, and said so in the way on ly a soldier can.
All of us here knew that people would die as soon as Terry Jones burned that Koran.
Terry Jones knew that people would die if he burned the Koran.
This is not a case of a rape victim being blamed for the clothes she was wearing. This is a case of a mother dressing her 12 year old in a bikini and sending her to live with a registered sex offender knowing that a case of viagra and a keg of beer had just been delivered to his house.
We all knew what would happen when Terry Jones burned that Koran. Terry Jones is guilty because he knew and did it anyway. -
And Sarge plays a variation of the chickenhawk card. We’re done here.
-
And Sarge plays a variation of the chickenhawk card. We’re done here.
-
Serge’
I only needed to read this and stop.Now, bravely go over to Greyhawk’s site and tell him how wrong he is.
Why? He is no authority either. Tell ya what you go tell Mr. Hawk to come here and join OUR discussion.
-
Serge’
I only needed to read this and stop.Now, bravely go over to Greyhawk’s site and tell him how wrong he is.
Why? He is no authority either. Tell ya what you go tell Mr. Hawk to come here and join OUR discussion.
-
That young man who emailed Greyhawk knew people would die if Terry Jones burned that Koran, and said so in the way on ly a soldier can.
I was not going to throw down on this, but I will. I will put my DD214 and military experience(s) up against anyone Sarge. That dog done died that is why it don’t hunt.
-
That young man who emailed Greyhawk knew people would die if Terry Jones burned that Koran, and said so in the way on ly a soldier can.
I was not going to throw down on this, but I will. I will put my DD214 and military experience(s) up against anyone Sarge. That dog done died that is why it don’t hunt.
-
Sarge:
Sir, if General Petraeus or Sec. Gates called me and asked me to do something I would try to comply. I’m just that kind of guy. If they called me up and told me that I would be responsible for what an angry mob of ragheads did 10,000 miles away based on my actions – I would tell them they were full of bovine processed fecal material.
I don’t for the life of me understand your reluctance to embrace this concept. Is Terry Jones a gutless fool? Yes. Should he have burned his copy of the Koran? Probably not. Is he responsible for the deaths in Afghanistan? Absolutely not.
If he is responsible then the ragheads who actually pulled the trigger are not. If Jones is the bad guy then the sub-humans who butchered innocent victims are actually justified.
So, here are some questions for you to answer:
What are you actually trying to accomplish sir? Are you trying to justify the actions of the muslims who actually rioted and murdered? Why do you continue to insist that Jones is responsible while apparently holding the muslim fanatics innocent?
I answered your question, would you like to respond in kind?
-
Sarge:
Sir, if General Petraeus or Sec. Gates called me and asked me to do something I would try to comply. I’m just that kind of guy. If they called me up and told me that I would be responsible for what an angry mob of ragheads did 10,000 miles away based on my actions – I would tell them they were full of bovine processed fecal material.
I don’t for the life of me understand your reluctance to embrace this concept. Is Terry Jones a gutless fool? Yes. Should he have burned his copy of the Koran? Probably not. Is he responsible for the deaths in Afghanistan? Absolutely not.
If he is responsible then the ragheads who actually pulled the trigger are not. If Jones is the bad guy then the sub-humans who butchered innocent victims are actually justified.
So, here are some questions for you to answer:
What are you actually trying to accomplish sir? Are you trying to justify the actions of the muslims who actually rioted and murdered? Why do you continue to insist that Jones is responsible while apparently holding the muslim fanatics innocent?
I answered your question, would you like to respond in kind? -
Tell ya what you go tell Mr. Hawk to come here and join OUR discussion.
Nah.
I’m not the kind to whine to his buddies that some meanie is saying bad things so that they gang up on him.
I fight my own battles, and don’t do all that badly. I don’t need any help, and I’ll say whatever i say out in front of everybody and give everybody the chance to say things right back.
-
Tell ya what you go tell Mr. Hawk to come here and join OUR discussion.
Nah.
I’m not the kind to whine to his buddies that some meanie is saying bad things so that they gang up on him.
I fight my own battles, and don’t do all that badly. I don’t need any help, and I’ll say whatever i say out in front of everybody and give everybody the chance to say things right back. -
FA: They also burned up stuff. A women’s school bus…….
Being the mother of a single child for 10 years was wonderful. Since the twins birth, I’ve had to become Dr. Sleuth as well as referee, not to mention them playing the “……. is the golden child” card and the gang-up card.
I’ve managed to brain wash all of them (including that red-headed step child) into thinking that they are “secretly” my golden child. he he he!!!
Apparently
roach tabletsquaaludes aren’t good for squirrel monkeys.FIFY. 😉
-
FA: They also burned up stuff. A women’s school bus…….
Being the mother of a single child for 10 years was wonderful. Since the twins birth, I’ve had to become Dr. Sleuth as well as referee, not to mention them playing the “……. is the golden child” card and the gang-up card.
I’ve managed to brain wash all of them (including that red-headed step child) into thinking that they are “secretly” my golden child. he he he!!!Apparently
roach tabletsquaaludes aren’t good for squirrel monkeys.FIFY. 😉
-
Nah.
That is what I thought.
/OUT
YANWOR -
Nah.
That is what I thought.
/OUT
YANWOR -
If General Petreaus called you and asked you not to do something because it might endanger his troops, would you do it?
At what point would it be over the line for him to ask you? When you want to use bomb-mo as a gravatar? When you want to protest a mosque in you neighborhood because you think it’ll make for bad traffic?
When would it be too much for you?
-
If General Petreaus called you and asked you not to do something because it might endanger his troops, would you do it?
At what point would it be over the line for him to ask you? When you want to use bomb-mo as a gravatar? When you want to protest a mosque in you neighborhood because you think it’ll make for bad traffic?
When would it be too much for you? -
The responsibility for these murders lie with the people who committed them, just as with the murders and violence following the publication of the editorial cartoons in Denmark a few years ago.
ED MORRISSEY
And paraphrased in every way possible by the rest of us.
/Thanks ST
-
The responsibility for these murders lie with the people who committed them, just as with the murders and violence following the publication of the editorial cartoons in Denmark a few years ago.
ED MORRISSEYAnd paraphrased in every way possible by the rest of us.
/Thanks ST -
Most welcome, Squawkie Tooters.
So what?? He burnt the Koran. People burn the Bible and it’s “free speech”. What I want to know is, did they use the fire for a Bar-B-Q?? Pork ribs, anyone??
Tim_B on April 2, 2011 at 1:30 PM
What is sad is that had he not burned the book, but instead let grease drip on it from those ribs for example – the result would have been the same.catmman on April 2, 2011 at 2:43 PM
Yeppers.
-
Most welcome, Squawkie Tooters.
So what?? He burnt the Koran. People burn the Bible and it’s “free speech”. What I want to know is, did they use the fire for a Bar-B-Q?? Pork ribs, anyone??
Tim_B on April 2, 2011 at 1:30 PM
What is sad is that had he not burned the book, but instead let grease drip on it from those ribs for example – the result would have been the same.
catmman on April 2, 2011 at 2:43 PMYeppers.
-
I always thought that we could best achieve our goals in Afghanistan by picking some good high ground, digging in deep, announce that we were burning korans there, and kill everyone that comes to ‘complain.’
Slowburn on April 2, 2011 at 3:10 PM
Works for me.
-
I always thought that we could best achieve our goals in Afghanistan by picking some good high ground, digging in deep, announce that we were burning korans there, and kill everyone that comes to ‘complain.’
Slowburn on April 2, 2011 at 3:10 PMWorks for me.
-
I just cannot believe what I am reading.
This is where we have arrived as a nation ?
Hey, Ma and Pa, they told us at school we have to be real nice and quiet cause if we say anything bad about Mr. Mussolini or Mr Hitler, they might just run out and kill some more Jews and Pollocks, maybe some Gypsies, too.
So we’re supposed to be real polite and not say anything. My principal and teacher says we all have to listen up to what the generals and politicians tell us, doncha know.
Heaven forbid.
And I’ll tell you another thing, Sarge Whining, if you and the other pretenders who presume to speak for all the men and women fighting for America and her ideals don’t like the people they are fighting to protect, then by all means, let them find some other damned army to join. Because I am telling you now, right now, the people of this nation will not kneel to you or any other attempt at intimidation.
-
I just cannot believe what I am reading.
This is where we have arrived as a nation ?
Hey, Ma and Pa, they told us at school we have to be real nice and quiet cause if we say anything bad about Mr. Mussolini or Mr Hitler, they might just run out and kill some more Jews and Pollocks, maybe some Gypsies, too.
So we’re supposed to be real polite and not say anything. My principal and teacher says we all have to listen up to what the generals and politicians tell us, doncha know.
Heaven forbid.
And I’ll tell you another thing, Sarge Whining, if you and the other pretenders who presume to speak for all the men and women fighting for America and her ideals don’t like the people they are fighting to protect, then by all means, let them find some other damned army to join. Because I am telling you now, right now, the people of this nation will not kneel to you or any other attempt at intimidation. -
61 Southern Tragedy says:
Did anyone read this link????
I did. The guy looks like a real misfit and a loser to boot.
-
61 Southern Tragedy says:
Did anyone read this link????
I did. The guy looks like a real misfit and a loser to boot.
-
If the military would quit worrying about playing PC with the mooslims and focusing on the sensitivities of the gays and every other PC group and start stomping an
Everglades size mud hole, by any and every means possible, in the a$$ of everyone who appears to be the enemy or sympathetic to the enemy we probably wouldn’t have to worry about who has a Koran and whatever the hell they’re doing with it. I couldn’t give a rats a$$ about any mooslim that’s offended by anything anymore – 3,000 dead at the World Trade Center and countless other hundreds dead since they killed those Israelis at the Olympics in the 70’s won’t let me. I’ve completely run out of sympathy and patience for mooslims in general. I can’t stand Donald Trump but at least he had the testicular fortitude to say we have a problem with mooslims in this country – unlike that spineless, coward, idiot currently occupying the White House. -
If the military would quit worrying about playing PC with the mooslims and focusing on the sensitivities of the gays and every other PC group and start stomping an
Everglades size mud hole, by any and every means possible, in the a$$ of everyone who appears to be the enemy or sympathetic to the enemy we probably wouldn’t have to worry about who has a Koran and whatever the hell they’re doing with it. I couldn’t give a rats a$$ about any mooslim that’s offended by anything anymore – 3,000 dead at the World Trade Center and countless other hundreds dead since they killed those Israelis at the Olympics in the 70’s won’t let me. I’ve completely run out of sympathy and patience for mooslims in general. I can’t stand Donald Trump but at least he had the testicular fortitude to say we have a problem with mooslims in this country – unlike that spineless, coward, idiot currently occupying the White House. -
With all these bloviating big brothers around here I’m off to Academy to get some hip waders.
-
With all these bloviating big brothers around here I’m off to Academy to get some hip waders.
-
ST, guess who?
-
ST, guess who?
-
Sorry ST, Shandingo snuck in there ahead of me!
-
Sorry ST, Shandingo snuck in there ahead of me!
-
#69 Shannon
And well you should if you believe a shred of this…
#52 Squawk
Tex Fat Pat Albert
I have two younger brothers. I got them both buffaloed to this day. -
#69 Shannon
And well you should if you believe a shred of this…#52 Squawk
Tex Fat Pat Albert
I have two younger brothers. I got them both buffaloed to this day. -
Good points.
Heeeey Lawrence! Eh. You get an e for effort, shuuggg. Are you going to the tea party with me? I’d love to have some “arm candy” hanging out with me. Yeah, you can bring your wife too!! Still got me email? You never respond to mine. 🙁
-
Oh SNAP!!!!~
Good points.
Heeeey Lawrence! Eh. You get an e for effort, shuuggg. Are you going to the tea party with me? I’d love to have some “arm candy” hanging out with me. Yeah, you can bring your wife too!! Still got me email? You never respond to mine. 🙁 -
With all these bloviating big brothers around here I’m off to Academy to get some hip waders.
Oooh! Can ya pick me some up? I can wear childs size 16. It’ll save you lots of money.
-
With all these bloviating big brothers around here I’m off to Academy to get some hip waders.
Oooh! Can ya pick me some up? I can wear childs size 16. It’ll save you lots of money.
-
Texpat
#72
RU Kiddin me? When I walk into the room they get into a fight to be the one to give me a chair. They still send me protection money. -
Texpat
#72
RU Kiddin me? When I walk into the room they get into a fight to be the one to give me a chair. They still send me protection money. -
66 Tex,
Do you speak for the men and women of the services? Was there an election held? I must have missed the memo on that one.
I for one believe the only folks entitled to represent the current generations in the service of our country are the ones who are serving now. It wasn’t that long ago that I really resented old geezers spouting off about why my generation wasn’t winning a war in SE Asia.
None of the whiners seemed to be anxious to join us in the mud.
I had six uncles who served in WWII. Four in the Marines, One in the SeaBees, and One flew in B24 Bombers with the Eighth Air Force. All of these guys saw serious combat action. The Marines and SeaBee were on the Canal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. My AAF uncle was shot down during the Ploiesti Air Raids and spend the rest of the war in a miserable POW camp. As a boy, I never knew about their service; they just did not talk about it.
I got to share some times with my uncles many years later when I returned from my Asian adventure. They did not ask about my experience and they still did not talk about their times. What happened there stayed there, which is how I know the real thing from the ersatz.
As to this jerk in Florida. I believe he has a Constitutionally guranteed right to say just about anything he wants to say and I would defend his right to be a jerk, but that does not mean I would not give him one really energetic kick in the backside.
Sarge is right again. We are not fighting the Wehrmacht or the JIA in Afganistan. It is necessary to make kissy face and win the hearts and minds of the populace in Assymetrical Warfare. Do this not and you will lose. Regrettably, I am beginning to believe we are passing the tipping point where it is no longer possible.
When faced with an enemy too powerful to engage directly you must first weaken him by undermining his foundation and attacking his source of power
Simple
-
66 Tex,
Do you speak for the men and women of the services? Was there an election held? I must have missed the memo on that one.
I for one believe the only folks entitled to represent the current generations in the service of our country are the ones who are serving now. It wasn’t that long ago that I really resented old geezers spouting off about why my generation wasn’t winning a war in SE Asia.
None of the whiners seemed to be anxious to join us in the mud.
I had six uncles who served in WWII. Four in the Marines, One in the SeaBees, and One flew in B24 Bombers with the Eighth Air Force. All of these guys saw serious combat action. The Marines and SeaBee were on the Canal, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. My AAF uncle was shot down during the Ploiesti Air Raids and spend the rest of the war in a miserable POW camp. As a boy, I never knew about their service; they just did not talk about it.
I got to share some times with my uncles many years later when I returned from my Asian adventure. They did not ask about my experience and they still did not talk about their times. What happened there stayed there, which is how I know the real thing from the ersatz.
As to this jerk in Florida. I believe he has a Constitutionally guranteed right to say just about anything he wants to say and I would defend his right to be a jerk, but that does not mean I would not give him one really energetic kick in the backside.
Sarge is right again. We are not fighting the Wehrmacht or the JIA in Afganistan. It is necessary to make kissy face and win the hearts and minds of the populace in Assymetrical Warfare. Do this not and you will lose. Regrettably, I am beginning to believe we are passing the tipping point where it is no longer possible.When faced with an enemy too powerful to engage directly you must first weaken him by undermining his foundation and attacking his source of power
Simple
-
Hey Serge’
And on’t you find it more than a bit odd that the outrage happened only in Afgoonistan? They don’t care in Iran? Oh I get it they did not have UN people to murder there. How bout Iraq? We ARE still in a war there too?AND you have not answered my question. What about this?
The Quran was burned March 20, but many Afghans only found out about it when Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the desecration four days later.
Ain’t Karzai to blame too?
-
Hey Serge’
And on’t you find it more than a bit odd that the outrage happened only in Afgoonistan? They don’t care in Iran? Oh I get it they did not have UN people to murder there. How bout Iraq? We ARE still in a war there too?
AND you have not answered my question. What about this?The Quran was burned March 20, but many Afghans only found out about it when Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the desecration four days later.
Ain’t Karzai to blame too?
-
many Afghans only found out about it when Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the desecration four days later.
So let’s take a logical leap one step further. Karzai himself wouldn’t have known about it at all had the media in America ignored Terry Jones rather than providing coverage to a guy who is obviously a mentally-unhinged attention whore. So by that logic, the media who provided coverage to this ridiculous spectacle is as responsible for the murders as the murderers themselves are. C’mon. Really?
-
many Afghans only found out about it when Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the desecration four days later.
So let’s take a logical leap one step further. Karzai himself wouldn’t have known about it at all had the media in America ignored Terry Jones rather than providing coverage to a guy who is obviously a mentally-unhinged attention whore. So by that logic, the media who provided coverage to this ridiculous spectacle is as responsible for the murders as the murderers themselves are. C’mon. Really?
-
Perhaps an interesting video…
-
Perhaps an interesting video…
-
I wonder how concerned General Patton would be today with “winning the hearts and minds” of anyone besides his own troops? I wonder how sympathetic he would be to the mooslims and the Koran given the last three decades or so of mooslim terrorism/jihad? I really wonder what he would think about women in combat and open homosexuality in the military?
Just aksin’
-
I wonder how concerned General Patton would be today with “winning the hearts and minds” of anyone besides his own troops? I wonder how sympathetic he would be to the mooslims and the Koran given the last three decades or so of mooslim terrorism/jihad? I really wonder what he would think about women in combat and open homosexuality in the military?
Just aksin’ -
The direction of this thread reminds me of this:
-
The direction of this thread reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PYb_anBMus -
I put it to you Surge –
“Isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society?”
-Otter
-
I put it to you Surge –
“Isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society?”
-Otter -
Surely there exists some sort of inverse Godwin’s Law, wherein if you quote “Animal House” lines you automatically win the argument. Maybe it’s just me and a few White Russians on that one though.
-
Surely there exists some sort of inverse Godwin’s Law, wherein if you quote “Animal House” lines you automatically win the argument. Maybe it’s just me and a few White Russians on that one though.
-
I wonder if CAIR finds this video offensive.
-
I wonder if CAIR finds this video offensive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAkfHShATKY -
Simple:
It’s a nice theory, but the fact of the matter is that making nice with terrorists just eggs them on. Don’t believe me? Ask the Israelis they’ve been giving in for 30 years and the muslims just keep slapping them in return.
We can’t win their hearts and minds. Never could. Our hearts and minds are as different as cows and cabbages. They HATE us. They hate what we stand for they hate who we worship, they hate our freedom. And, they are totally committed to our destruction.
They aren’t too powerful, we just lack sufficient commitment to win.
-
Simple:
It’s a nice theory, but the fact of the matter is that making nice with terrorists just eggs them on. Don’t believe me? Ask the Israelis they’ve been giving in for 30 years and the muslims just keep slapping them in return.
We can’t win their hearts and minds. Never could. Our hearts and minds are as different as cows and cabbages. They HATE us. They hate what we stand for they hate who we worship, they hate our freedom. And, they are totally committed to our destruction.
They aren’t too powerful, we just lack sufficient commitment to win. -
#84 phil:
Muslims find EVERYTHING offensive – except killing infidels and raping little girls.
-
#84 phil:
Muslims find EVERYTHING offensive – except killing infidels and raping little girls. -
a few White Russians
That would be Big Lebowski rules.
-
a few White Russians
That would be Big Lebowski rules.
-
OK, I now see that I must expand my inverse Godwin’s Law definition to include The Clash. What can I say? I’m in a good mood tonight. Thank you, Brother Phil.
🙂
-
OK, I now see that I must expand my inverse Godwin’s Law definition to include The Clash. What can I say? I’m in a good mood tonight. Thank you, Brother Phil.
🙂 -
That would be Big Lebowski rules.
Who needs Robert’s Rules of Order when you have Big Lebowski Rules?
🙂
-
That would be Big Lebowski rules.
Who needs Robert’s Rules of Order when you have Big Lebowski Rules?
🙂 -
I hereby invoke The Iron Fist Rule upon myself. G’nite y’all.
-
I hereby invoke The Iron Fist Rule upon myself. G’nite y’all.
-
Fat Albert
#85
And there in lies the big problem. Too many people look at the Muslims through the rose colored glasses of American values. Evil exists, placating it, trying to make nice with it, trying to win its heart and mind will only allow it to kill you first.The only way these people are going to be deterred is to meet them on their turf and be nastier than they. The ideal will never go away but enough fear can be instilled to make them think twice about getting stupid for quite a few years. It will raise its head again and will need to be beat back again. The only way to defeat or beat back the Islamist is the Chicago Way.
-
Fat Albert
#85
And there in lies the big problem. Too many people look at the Muslims through the rose colored glasses of American values. Evil exists, placating it, trying to make nice with it, trying to win its heart and mind will only allow it to kill you first.
The only way these people are going to be deterred is to meet them on their turf and be nastier than they. The ideal will never go away but enough fear can be instilled to make them think twice about getting stupid for quite a few years. It will raise its head again and will need to be beat back again. The only way to defeat or beat back the Islamist is the Chicago Way. -
#91 Squawkster:
And there in lies the big problem. Too many people look at the Muslims through the rose colored glasses of American values. Evil exists, placating it, trying to make nice with it, trying to win its heart and mind will only allow it to kill you first.
I have been trying to convince Sarge of that concept for months and it does not seem to be sinking in. As far as religious/political systems go islime and communism are 2 sides of basically the same coin and both are straight from the pit of hell. And I refer you to my #161 of yesterday’s o/c thread.
-
#91 Squawkster:
And there in lies the big problem. Too many people look at the Muslims through the rose colored glasses of American values. Evil exists, placating it, trying to make nice with it, trying to win its heart and mind will only allow it to kill you first.
I have been trying to convince Sarge of that concept for months and it does not seem to be sinking in. As far as religious/political systems go islime and communism are 2 sides of basically the same coin and both are straight from the pit of hell. And I refer you to my #161 of yesterday’s o/c thread.
-
Bonez
The little corporal and I have been arguing this luv em and win em over junk since Iraq. We are still in Iraq aren’t we? Yes. And contrary to what Mr Obama would have us believe we are still hoisting the battle on our backs.These people side with who has the most perceived power and deception is a big part of their way of life.
-
Bonez
The little corporal and I have been arguing this luv em and win em over junk since Iraq. We are still in Iraq aren’t we? Yes. And contrary to what Mr Obama would have us believe we are still hoisting the battle on our backs.
These people side with who has the most perceived power and deception is a big part of their way of life. -
We can’t win their hearts and minds.
Bingo. Radical islam is not rational. If it weren’t some chucklehead in Hogtown burning a book it would be a cartoonist in Denmark. They are not interested in rationality. They simply want to kill.
They aren’t too powerful, we just lack sufficient commitment to win.
And we’ve seen here today that some Americans are more than willing to capitulate.
-
We can’t win their hearts and minds.
Bingo. Radical islam is not rational. If it weren’t some chucklehead in Hogtown burning a book it would be a cartoonist in Denmark. They are not interested in rationality. They simply want to kill.
They aren’t too powerful, we just lack sufficient commitment to win.
And we’ve seen here today that some Americans are more than willing to capitulate.
-
#76 Simple
Do you speak for the men and women of the services? Was there an election held? I must have missed the memo on that one.
Nowhere in my comment do I presume, or even imply, that I speak for any member(s) of the military. I do criticize others who do that exact thing. Therefore, I have no idea what you are talking about. It would not be the first time.
No nation has done as much, offered sacrifice in blood, treasure and cold cash to rebuild a nation, creating schools, hospitals, court systems, constabulary, a vibrant free press, power supplies, water wells, irrigation, roads and bridges as the USA has in Iraq and Afghanistan. The imams in communion with the Iranians know this and also know they can undo all of America’s efforts by inciting an ignorant populace with whatever real or imagined slight that will serve their purpose. The American project to create a liberal, free society in that region is the largest threat to their power and so periodically one or two jihadi clerics will decide to demonstrate they still wield influence and control. It is the gorilla beating his chest. In this respect, the quote you included applies:
When faced with an enemy too powerful to engage directly you must first weaken him by undermining his foundation and attacking his source of power
Our community and civic support and the untenable rules of engagement often forced upon our troops has come at a very dear price in life and limb. In a more rational and prudent world, the idiots who run news programming would be unemployed and stories about preachers with a handful of followers burning Korans would never even make the cut for local news. Unfortunately, such is not the case and we, as Americans in our particular brand of liberty, have to endure the detritus of fools in the public square and it is where we will draw the line at accomodation. Our tolerance of nonsense is a difficult price for freedom, but we do it despite the unrelenting assault of domestic enemies of the First Amendment. If you honestly believe Americans are going to surrender this essential pillar of liberty to appease a murderous, illiterate mob in some ancient hellhole, then you are dead wrong. It would not be the first time.
-
#76 Simple
Do you speak for the men and women of the services? Was there an election held? I must have missed the memo on that one.
Nowhere in my comment do I presume, or even imply, that I speak for any member(s) of the military. I do criticize others who do that exact thing. Therefore, I have no idea what you are talking about. It would not be the first time.
No nation has done as much, offered sacrifice in blood, treasure and cold cash to rebuild a nation, creating schools, hospitals, court systems, constabulary, a vibrant free press, power supplies, water wells, irrigation, roads and bridges as the USA has in Iraq and Afghanistan. The imams in communion with the Iranians know this and also know they can undo all of America’s efforts by inciting an ignorant populace with whatever real or imagined slight that will serve their purpose. The American project to create a liberal, free society in that region is the largest threat to their power and so periodically one or two jihadi clerics will decide to demonstrate they still wield influence and control. It is the gorilla beating his chest. In this respect, the quote you included applies:When faced with an enemy too powerful to engage directly you must first weaken him by undermining his foundation and attacking his source of power
Our community and civic support and the untenable rules of engagement often forced upon our troops has come at a very dear price in life and limb. In a more rational and prudent world, the idiots who run news programming would be unemployed and stories about preachers with a handful of followers burning Korans would never even make the cut for local news. Unfortunately, such is not the case and we, as Americans in our particular brand of liberty, have to endure the detritus of fools in the public square and it is where we will draw the line at accomodation. Our tolerance of nonsense is a difficult price for freedom, but we do it despite the unrelenting assault of domestic enemies of the First Amendment. If you honestly believe Americans are going to surrender this essential pillar of liberty to appease a murderous, illiterate mob in some ancient hellhole, then you are dead wrong. It would not be the first time.
-
Cannot believe I had to go to other sites to see what the latest is on Charlie Sheen. No priorities I tell ya.
-
Cannot believe I had to go to other sites to see what the latest is on Charlie Sheen. No priorities I tell ya.
-
Went to the Magnolia Cook Off yesterday at our new Unity Park. All involved put on a fine show and the music yesterday was awesome! The new park and pavilion are very nice, it is not often we can brag about our little city’s adventures, but huge kudos on this one. Nice job guys!
-
Went to the Magnolia Cook Off yesterday at our new Unity Park. All involved put on a fine show and the music yesterday was awesome! The new park and pavilion are very nice, it is not often we can brag about our little city’s adventures, but huge kudos on this one. Nice job guys!
-
Went to the Magnolia Cook Off yesterday
What kind of magnolia cuisine? Fried magnolias, smoked, grilled, BBQ, or was it just a wild free for all of different magnolia dishes?
-
Went to the Magnolia Cook Off yesterday
What kind of magnolia cuisine? Fried magnolias, smoked, grilled, BBQ, or was it just a wild free for all of different magnolia dishes?
-
Every kinda pork you can think of
-
Every kinda pork you can think of
-
To celebrate….
hunnerd
-
To celebrate….
hunnerd -
What happened to Bob? He posted “Lionel Ritchie” @ #98 then disappeared! ❓
Oh,…Mornin’ Gang -
What happened to Bob? He posted “Lionel Ritchie” @ #98 then disappeared! ❓
Oh,…Mornin’ Gang -
SD, I saw that too, I was gonna play off that to get to 100. Guess he’s not easy after all.
-
SD, I saw that too, I was gonna play off that to get to 100. Guess he’s not easy after all.
-
-
-
Maybe we gotta a new poof yur gone bob button. Nice!
-
Maybe we gotta a new poof yur gone bob button. Nice!
-
#101 Apparently, like Descartes, I thought not, and poof! I was gone.
-
#101 Apparently, like Descartes, I thought not, and poof! I was gone.
-
#105 dave
Link broke. -
#105 dave
Link broke. -
And I’ll tell you another thing, Sarge Whining, if you and the other pretenders who presume to speak for all the men and women fighting for America and her ideals don’t like the people they are fighting to protect, then by all means, let them find some other damned army to join. Because I am telling you now, right now, the people of this nation will not kneel to you or any other attempt at intimidation.
Yah. Those guys at the Veterans of Foreign Wars are such posers, pretending to speak for all the men and women fighting our wars and using intimidation to get the people to kneel to the muslims.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. has denounced the burning of the Koran by Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla. The book burning which supposedly will occur this Saturday on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack is a protest demonstration by Jones followers to show their disdain for what they call an evil religion.
VFW National Commander Richard L. Eubank, a retired Marine and Vietnam combat veteran from Eugene, Ore., said “this self-serving act to burn another religion’s holy book will fuel anti-American sentiment for years and directly endanger our troops and destroy the goodwill that they have built throughout the world’s Muslim nations.” Eubank’s statement echoes the concerns from Gen. David Petraeus, the current Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), that our troops may be more exposed to danger by this senseless act of disrespect toward another groups religion.
You might want to talk to the members of the American Legion who answered this poll, because they present such a danger to this country and the winning of this war.
The Secretary said it would endanger the troops.
The General said it would endanger the troops.
Bloggers who served overseas said it would endanger the troops.
Troops overseas said it would endanger them.
Their Wives said it would endanger them.
The Veterans of foreign Wars said it would endanger them.
Terry Jones knew it would endanger them. Without that, he couldn’t make his point.
Texpat calls them all posers. I imagine its because he has a long list of those serving or who have served who will tell us not danger was present.
For a guy who got pizzed off about somebody saying that folks were making Jones out to be a hero, you certainly are taking a lot of time telling us that the folks who have to bear the burden of his actions shouldn’t be heard because Jones right to put them in danger is more important to them.
-
And I’ll tell you another thing, Sarge Whining, if you and the other pretenders who presume to speak for all the men and women fighting for America and her ideals don’t like the people they are fighting to protect, then by all means, let them find some other damned army to join. Because I am telling you now, right now, the people of this nation will not kneel to you or any other attempt at intimidation.
Yah. Those guys at the Veterans of Foreign Wars are such posers, pretending to speak for all the men and women fighting our wars and using intimidation to get the people to kneel to the muslims.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. has denounced the burning of the Koran by Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla. The book burning which supposedly will occur this Saturday on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack is a protest demonstration by Jones followers to show their disdain for what they call an evil religion.
VFW National Commander Richard L. Eubank, a retired Marine and Vietnam combat veteran from Eugene, Ore., said “this self-serving act to burn another religion’s holy book will fuel anti-American sentiment for years and directly endanger our troops and destroy the goodwill that they have built throughout the world’s Muslim nations.” Eubank’s statement echoes the concerns from Gen. David Petraeus, the current Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), that our troops may be more exposed to danger by this senseless act of disrespect toward another groups religion.You might want to talk to the members of the American Legion who answered this poll, because they present such a danger to this country and the winning of this war.
The Secretary said it would endanger the troops.
The General said it would endanger the troops.
Bloggers who served overseas said it would endanger the troops.
Troops overseas said it would endanger them.
Their Wives said it would endanger them.
The Veterans of foreign Wars said it would endanger them.
Terry Jones knew it would endanger them. Without that, he couldn’t make his point.
Texpat calls them all posers. I imagine its because he has a long list of those serving or who have served who will tell us not danger was present.
For a guy who got pizzed off about somebody saying that folks were making Jones out to be a hero, you certainly are taking a lot of time telling us that the folks who have to bear the burden of his actions shouldn’t be heard because Jones right to put them in danger is more important to them. -
DAYAAM!!!
2011 CHEVROLET CAMARO ZL1 BY SLP PERFORMANCE, 750HP!!!!! Only 69 units to be built!
I WANT ONE!!! Hey @$110,000, I may get two of them. 😉
-
DAYAAM!!!
2011 CHEVROLET CAMARO ZL1 BY SLP PERFORMANCE, 750HP!!!!! Only 69 units to be built!
I WANT ONE!!! Hey @$110,000, I may get two of them. 😉
-
This one is better 1021 Hp, 1027 Ft Lb.
-
This one is better 1021 Hp, 1027 Ft Lb.
-
B/B Tin Roof Alert
Whoever it was recently asking about Blue Bell Tin Roof, I just bought a carton at the big Kroger store on 43rd in NW Houston. Haven’t opened/sampled yet, to see if it has any marshmallows in it. (I predict it will, based on last time I had some.) -
B/B Tin Roof Alert
Whoever it was recently asking about Blue Bell Tin Roof, I just bought a carton at the big Kroger store on 43rd in NW Houston. Haven’t opened/sampled yet, to see if it has any marshmallows in it. (I predict it will, based on last time I had some.) -
The sensational media machine made sure the knuckle-dragging cave dwellers in Afghanistan heard about a punk-ass preacher across the street from Devil’s Millhopper. Had he been ignored no one would have been hurt. Are they as equally responsible for the murders?
-
The sensational media machine made sure the knuckle-dragging cave dwellers in Afghanistan heard about a punk-ass preacher across the street from Devil’s Millhopper. Had he been ignored no one would have been hurt. Are they as equally responsible for the murders?
-
Hey TT: Thanks a lot for sending Barf Kitty over to my house last night, she left her calling cards which were definitely NOT APPRECIATED. I did not even know that you/she knew where my house was and now your blasted barf kitty has likely taught my 2 sweet, never misbehaving, cats a really bad habit. I thought we were friends, shoot, next thing I know you will be advocating sharia law or something.
-
Hey TT: Thanks a lot for sending Barf Kitty over to my house last night, she left her calling cards which were definitely NOT APPRECIATED. I did not even know that you/she knew where my house was and now your blasted barf kitty has likely taught my 2 sweet, never misbehaving, cats a really bad habit. I thought we were friends, shoot, next thing I know you will be advocating sharia law or something.
-
All cats smaller than about 40lb are evil.
-
All cats smaller than about 40lb are evil.
-
#114 Bones
Get ’em some hairball remedy. Cats start grooming away their thick winter coats in the spring. (TT’s BK throws up year-round, from what she says about her.)
-
#114 Bones
Get ’em some hairball remedy. Cats start grooming away their thick winter coats in the spring. (TT’s BK throws up year-round, from what she says about her.) -
Speaking of family pets, did everyone see Drudge’s link to the dog that stayed with a 2-year-old kiddo that had wandered out of his house and was lost overnight? (The little boy’s mother sounded like a real sleazoid to me.)
-
Speaking of family pets, did everyone see Drudge’s link to the dog that stayed with a 2-year-old kiddo that had wandered out of his house and was lost overnight? (The little boy’s mother sounded like a real sleazoid to me.)
-
13 Hamous says:
April 3, 2011 at 12:51 pm
The sensational media machine made sure the knuckle-dragging cave dwellers in Afghanistan heard about a punk-ass preacher across the street from Devil’s Millhopper. Had he been ignored no one would have been hurt. Are they as equally responsible for the murders?The question then would be how they got ahold of the news, wouldn’t it? Here’s a hint:
GAINESVILLE — The Dove World Outreach Center sent dozens of news releases to media outlets in the build-up to what it called “International Judge the Koran Day” on March 20.
The only journalists who attended were a student documentary film crew from Orlando, two University of Florida students, a writer stringing for Agence France-Presse and a photographer working without an assignment.
Terry Jones made every effort he could to insure that the sensational media machine got the message to the knuckle dragging cave dwellers. If he hadn’t issued his press releases, the press wouldn’t have known about it.
You can pee on a Koran all you want. You can call yourn friends and neighbors to come over to your house and pee on it. That won’t affect anybody humping a ruck in AfPak.
Call the media and make sure it gets out, then you’re going to get somebody killed—and you have made an affirmative act to insure it happens,.
The US media ignored him.
-
13 Hamous says:
April 3, 2011 at 12:51 pm
The sensational media machine made sure the knuckle-dragging cave dwellers in Afghanistan heard about a punk-ass preacher across the street from Devil’s Millhopper. Had he been ignored no one would have been hurt. Are they as equally responsible for the murders?The question then would be how they got ahold of the news, wouldn’t it? Here’s a hint:
GAINESVILLE — The Dove World Outreach Center sent dozens of news releases to media outlets in the build-up to what it called “International Judge the Koran Day” on March 20.
The only journalists who attended were a student documentary film crew from Orlando, two University of Florida students, a writer stringing for Agence France-Presse and a photographer working without an assignment.Terry Jones made every effort he could to insure that the sensational media machine got the message to the knuckle dragging cave dwellers. If he hadn’t issued his press releases, the press wouldn’t have known about it.
You can pee on a Koran all you want. You can call yourn friends and neighbors to come over to your house and pee on it. That won’t affect anybody humping a ruck in AfPak.
Call the media and make sure it gets out, then you’re going to get somebody killed—and you have made an affirmative act to insure it happens,.
The US media ignored him. -
This post by Ace comes closest to the way I feel about this entire incident.
-
This post by Ace comes closest to the way I feel about this entire incident.
-
The website for Dove World Press Releases is down. I can’t say for certain, but I would bet that one of the addresses on those press releases would be for Al Jazeera. We certainly know that Agence France-Presse got one, so I feel its safe to assume that Al Jazeera did.
-
The website for Dove World Press Releases is down. I can’t say for certain, but I would bet that one of the addresses on those press releases would be for Al Jazeera. We certainly know that Agence France-Presse got one, so I feel its safe to assume that Al Jazeera did.
-
64 wagonburner says:
April 2, 2011 at 7:23 pmIf General Petreaus called you and asked you not to do something because it might endanger his troops, would you do it?
At what point would it be over the line for him to ask you? When you want to use bomb-mo as a gravatar? When you want to protest a mosque in you neighborhood because you think it’ll make for bad traffic?
When would it be too much for you?
As I said above, pee on a Koran for all I care, use the gravatar, protest the mosque, I don’t care, and most muslims won’t either. We didn’t see any riots in the streets or people being killed when a pig race was put next door to a mosque in Katy.
What puts the troops in danger is when the news is put infront of a muslim population that will kill people. As illustrated above, dove World made sure the Arab world would know about the burnings. That’s why Secretary Gates caled in last September, why Petreaus made his public statements, and why the VFW condemned that action.
So.
Will you answer the question now?
-
64 wagonburner says:
April 2, 2011 at 7:23 pmIf General Petreaus called you and asked you not to do something because it might endanger his troops, would you do it?
At what point would it be over the line for him to ask you? When you want to use bomb-mo as a gravatar? When you want to protest a mosque in you neighborhood because you think it’ll make for bad traffic?
When would it be too much for you?As I said above, pee on a Koran for all I care, use the gravatar, protest the mosque, I don’t care, and most muslims won’t either. We didn’t see any riots in the streets or people being killed when a pig race was put next door to a mosque in Katy.
What puts the troops in danger is when the news is put infront of a muslim population that will kill people. As illustrated above, dove World made sure the Arab world would know about the burnings. That’s why Secretary Gates caled in last September, why Petreaus made his public statements, and why the VFW condemned that action.
So.
Will you answer the question now? -
What puts the troops in danger is when the news is put infront of a muslim population that will kill people.
And who puts the news in front of the nuts? Jones sure didn’t. The most he could do was send videos & press releases to actual news orgs. The news orgs didn’t really put it in front of the nuts; they live in backwards villages a little north of the middle of nowhere. Most of them barely have any electricity at all. The nuts were riled up by some imams who are even crazier than they are.
Now answer my question.
If Gates, Petraeus, or whomever called you and asked you not to use bomb-mo as a gravatar, which side of the line is that on? What point exactly would be too much for you? We know the extreme ends of the continuum – If they ask you not to burn a koran, you would accede to their request; if they asked you to never even whisper under your breath anything even slightly derogatory about Islam, you (presumably) would not accede to their request.
Where is the line?
-
What puts the troops in danger is when the news is put infront of a muslim population that will kill people.
And who puts the news in front of the nuts? Jones sure didn’t. The most he could do was send videos & press releases to actual news orgs. The news orgs didn’t really put it in front of the nuts; they live in backwards villages a little north of the middle of nowhere. Most of them barely have any electricity at all. The nuts were riled up by some imams who are even crazier than they are.
Now answer my question.
If Gates, Petraeus, or whomever called you and asked you not to use bomb-mo as a gravatar, which side of the line is that on? What point exactly would be too much for you? We know the extreme ends of the continuum – If they ask you not to burn a koran, you would accede to their request; if they asked you to never even whisper under your breath anything even slightly derogatory about Islam, you (presumably) would not accede to their request.
Where is the line? -
If Gates, Petraeus, or whomever called you and asked you not to use bomb-mo as a gravatar, which side of the line is that on? What point exactly would be too much for you? We know the extreme ends of the continuum – If they ask you not to burn a koran, you would accede to their request; if they asked you to never even whisper under your breath anything even slightly derogatory about Islam, you (presumably) would not accede to their request.
Where is the line?
I can’t for the loife of me figure out how you don’t know where I think the line is. I;ve told you a couple of times.
Lets make beleive you understand that the line exists whereever you think it should, and that this is a hypothetical question in the first place. Let me put a finer line on it.
If a General calls you and asks you not to do something because it would endanger his troops—and you have every expectation that he is right (which Terry Jones did, and admitted it when he first decided not to), would you do it?
-
If Gates, Petraeus, or whomever called you and asked you not to use bomb-mo as a gravatar, which side of the line is that on? What point exactly would be too much for you? We know the extreme ends of the continuum – If they ask you not to burn a koran, you would accede to their request; if they asked you to never even whisper under your breath anything even slightly derogatory about Islam, you (presumably) would not accede to their request.
Where is the line?I can’t for the loife of me figure out how you don’t know where I think the line is. I;ve told you a couple of times.
Lets make beleive you understand that the line exists whereever you think it should, and that this is a hypothetical question in the first place. Let me put a finer line on it.
If a General calls you and asks you not to do something because it would endanger his troops—and you have every expectation that he is right (which Terry Jones did, and admitted it when he first decided not to), would you do it? -
For me, you lost any semblance of rationality when you played the chickenhawk card. Everything else sounds like static now.
-
For me, you lost any semblance of rationality when you played the chickenhawk card. Everything else sounds like static now.
-
Ooooooo…….Oooooooo…….Ahhhhhhh…… /curls toes
Damn you made me wanna have a smoke……..then I reckoned you was fakin cause there weren’t no guns or roadkill involved.
-
Ooooooo…….Oooooooo…….Ahhhhhhh…… /curls toes
Damn you made me wanna have a smoke……..then I reckoned you was fakin cause there weren’t no guns or roadkill involved.
-
Jones is universally condemned. What the hell else are you seeking, SArge?
-
Jones is universally condemned. What the hell else are you seeking, SArge?
-
I can’t for the loife of me figure out how you don’t know where I think the line is. I;ve told you a couple of times.
All you’ve said is that you’d roll over if they asked you too. I was willing to give you the benefit of a little more spine than that. So if they overheard you in a bar telling your buddy that those Muslims need to be dealt with harshly, then asked you to stop because it puts our troops at risk, you would?
You also need to keep in mind that these illiterate medieval goat molesters are like hot nitroglycerin on a bumpy road. The merest breath of anything real or perceived might set them off. It doesn’t have to be true. Look what happened when the news media published false stories about a Koran getting flushed a dew tears ago. It was totally untrue, but that didn’t stop the media now, did it?
Seems to me that if we all started burning and otherwise desecrating korans on a sonwhat continual basis, the shock value would quickly wear off and they could go back to being a bunch of ignorant central Asian hillbillies.
-
I can’t for the loife of me figure out how you don’t know where I think the line is. I;ve told you a couple of times.
All you’ve said is that you’d roll over if they asked you too. I was willing to give you the benefit of a little more spine than that. So if they overheard you in a bar telling your buddy that those Muslims need to be dealt with harshly, then asked you to stop because it puts our troops at risk, you would?
You also need to keep in mind that these illiterate medieval goat molesters are like hot nitroglycerin on a bumpy road. The merest breath of anything real or perceived might set them off. It doesn’t have to be true. Look what happened when the news media published false stories about a Koran getting flushed a dew tears ago. It was totally untrue, but that didn’t stop the media now, did it?
Seems to me that if we all started burning and otherwise desecrating korans on a sonwhat continual basis, the shock value would quickly wear off and they could go back to being a bunch of ignorant central Asian hillbillies. -
apparently you don’t have to burn a Koran, you just have to worship a different God:
A pair of suicide bombers struck a shrine in Pakistan Sunday, killing 30 people gathered there and pressing a campaign of attacks against places of worship that extremists consider un-Islamic, officials said.
-
apparently you don’t have to burn a Koran, you just have to worship a different God:
A pair of suicide bombers struck a shrine in Pakistan Sunday, killing 30 people gathered there and pressing a campaign of attacks against places of worship that extremists consider un-Islamic, officials said.
-
Sarge,
What puts the troops in danger is when the news is put infront of a muslim population that will kill people.
Using your standard, Israel should abandon their claim to Jerusalem, the West Bank, and possibly any land in the Middle East at all. If they were all to move back to Eastern Europe or someplace else it would stop “riling up” the Palestinians and they would stop killing Jews.
How quiet and non-confrontational should we be to appease our Muslim brothers?
-
Sarge,
What puts the troops in danger is when the news is put infront of a muslim population that will kill people.
Using your standard, Israel should abandon their claim to Jerusalem, the West Bank, and possibly any land in the Middle East at all. If they were all to move back to Eastern Europe or someplace else it would stop “riling up” the Palestinians and they would stop killing Jews.
How quiet and non-confrontational should we be to appease our Muslim brothers? -
Scary Harry and Flimsy Lindsay are now saying congress may look into ways to limit our free speech. Yay. Congressional hearings on how best to capitulate away our 1st Amendment rights. I’ve noticed several other commenters around the blogosphere pointing out that it’s legal to burn Old Glory and the Bible so why are they even contemplating this?
Ironically, though, the more attention Congress devotes to this, the worse they’ll make it. If Reid and Graham were stupid enough to hold hearings (which they almost certainly aren’t), it’d be a galactic clusterfark — a spotlight for Jones, a red alert for civil libertarians, and an offense to a public that’s tired of double standards for religious insults. If nothing else good comes from this incident, though, it’s at least been useful as a window into the mindset of our trusted “ally” Hamid Karzai, who did his level best to earn brownie points with the fanatics among his constituents by demagoging this to the hilt. As voters get set for another debate this summer about whether we should draw down in Afghanistan, make sure that isn’t forgotten.
-
Scary Harry and Flimsy Lindsay are now saying congress may look into ways to limit our free speech. Yay. Congressional hearings on how best to capitulate away our 1st Amendment rights. I’ve noticed several other commenters around the blogosphere pointing out that it’s legal to burn Old Glory and the Bible so why are they even contemplating this?
Ironically, though, the more attention Congress devotes to this, the worse they’ll make it. If Reid and Graham were stupid enough to hold hearings (which they almost certainly aren’t), it’d be a galactic clusterfark — a spotlight for Jones, a red alert for civil libertarians, and an offense to a public that’s tired of double standards for religious insults. If nothing else good comes from this incident, though, it’s at least been useful as a window into the mindset of our trusted “ally” Hamid Karzai, who did his level best to earn brownie points with the fanatics among his constituents by demagoging this to the hilt. As voters get set for another debate this summer about whether we should draw down in Afghanistan, make sure that isn’t forgotten.
-
Well, there you go Sarge, you’ve got Harry Reid and Lindsey Graham on your side too.
-
Well, there you go Sarge, you’ve got Harry Reid and Lindsey Graham on your side too.
-
Well, done with
chemical dumppool duties, patio cleaned up. Is it noon yet? Why yes by golly it is. Time for some DVR’ed Boogity, Boogity Boogity, Let’s Go Racin’ Boys!! -
Well, done with
chemical dumppool duties, patio cleaned up. Is it noon yet? Why yes by golly it is. Time for some DVR’ed Boogity, Boogity Boogity, Let’s Go Racin’ Boys!! -
#132
Well it wasn’t noon, but it was 4:20. 😀
-
#132
Well it wasn’t noon, but it was 4:20. 😀 -
Well I don’t know about a “cherry-flavored wheat lager” but I was under the impression that all beer was breakfast beer already.
-
Well I don’t know about a “cherry-flavored wheat lager” but I was under the impression that all beer was breakfast beer already.
-
Seems we could reduce some of this nonsense by whacking a few imams. They’ve lost their noncombatant status through their actions.
-
Seems we could reduce some of this nonsense by whacking a few imams. They’ve lost their noncombatant status through their actions.
-
Lite beer and Froot Loops: the breakfast of ex-champions.
-
Lite beer and Froot Loops: the breakfast of ex-champions.
-
Lite beerSchlitz andFroot LoopsCapn Crunch (ARRRRR): the breakfast ofex-champions./Not necessarily a FIF
WY. Just a “thought you oughta know”.\\I just love that modify/delete
buttonword(s) -
Lite beerSchlitz andFroot LoopsCapn Crunch (ARRRRR): the breakfast ofex-champions.
/Not necessarily a FIFWY. Just a “thought you oughta know”.
\\I just love that modify/deletebuttonword(s) -
I really don’t know why fruit-flavored beers get dissed as they do. The Belgians have been doing them quite well for many years. Then again, these are the same people who put mayo on their french fries, or pommes frittes, or whatever fancy name they give ’em over there. At least Pierre Celis had the good sense to come to Austin.
-
I really don’t know why fruit-flavored beers get dissed as they do. The Belgians have been doing them quite well for many years. Then again, these are the same people who put mayo on their french fries, or pommes frittes, or whatever fancy name they give ’em over there. At least Pierre Celis had the good sense to come to Austin.
-
Has anyone ever had a “hard iced tea” and if so, is it any good? Does it taste like ice tea or like beer or just taste awful?
-
Has anyone ever had a “hard iced tea” and if so, is it any good? Does it taste like ice tea or like beer or just taste awful?
-
hard iced tea
I’ve not heard that term, but I have had a few Long Island Iced Teas. Not sure if that’s the same thing or not. Either way, Long Island Iced Tea is nothing at all like beer and the only real resemblance it bears to actual iced tea is its color.
-
hard iced tea
I’ve not heard that term, but I have had a few Long Island Iced Teas. Not sure if that’s the same thing or not. Either way, Long Island Iced Tea is nothing at all like beer and the only real resemblance it bears to actual iced tea is its color.
-
I really don’t know why fruit-flavored beers get dissed as they do.
I can drink the occasional Lindeman’s Framboise. I just wouldn’t consider it a breakfast beer.
-
I really don’t know why fruit-flavored beers get dissed as they do.
I can drink the occasional Lindeman’s Framboise. I just wouldn’t consider it a breakfast beer.
-
Well, I guess hard iced tea is different from Long Island. Sounds interesting, but as close as I’ve ever gotten to that hard tea is a few batches of mead I’ve made. I do love me some mead from time to time.
-
Well, I guess hard iced tea is different from Long Island. Sounds interesting, but as close as I’ve ever gotten to that hard tea is a few batches of mead I’ve made. I do love me some mead from time to time.
-
I figure Lindsay Graham drinks fruit flavored beer.
-
I figure Lindsay Graham drinks fruit flavored beer.
-
I just wouldn’t consider it a breakfast beer.
Oh yeah, fair enough. I guess the acidity might be a bit much in the am. My favorite I’ve ever had early was Weihenstephan Lager in Fredericksburg, TX. Probably a location situation there though as much as the beer itself.
-
I just wouldn’t consider it a breakfast beer.
Oh yeah, fair enough. I guess the acidity might be a bit much in the am. My favorite I’ve ever had early was Weihenstephan Lager in Fredericksburg, TX. Probably a location situation there though as much as the beer itself.
-
Kinda mugly and overcast all day out here on the north bank of the Barzos at Richmond with just a fleeting hint of sunlight breaking through late this morning. At least that’s confined the temp to the upper 70s. Breezy all day as more pollen and live oak blossoms fly about further coating everything.
The back yard looks like a yard sale without the price tags again with patio furniture on the lawn and plants crowded on the open patio. The refinished covered patio floor is curing and not smelling so nauseatingly bad today. We can walk on it lightly but not put anything back on it for a couple of more days. Happily it does look like slate in a muted terra cotta finish, as we had envisioned.
A lone sawhorse blocks the driveway entrance at the road so the epoxy filling the myriad cracks can cure another day. Our vehicles park on the edge of the lawn near the road, doing no damage to the grass as it is so dry out there and concrete hard. The front porch is off limits with resurfacing curing going on for another day or two. The result is worth the four days’ disruption so far. It’s certainly inconvenient but not the nightmare of kitchen or master bath remodeling–because it’s outside.
Less news makes it out of Madison these days, but by no means is the nastiness letting up. It’s getting worse if anything, just apparently not of interest to the LSM since the capitol has been reclaimed. Things are brewing in the April 5th election for state Supreme Court, pitting the conservative incumbent against a very leftwing challenger who has all the union thugs backing her. The electioneering ads on her side could make one think it’s Belfast and not Wisconsin.
-
Kinda mugly and overcast all day out here on the north bank of the Barzos at Richmond with just a fleeting hint of sunlight breaking through late this morning. At least that’s confined the temp to the upper 70s. Breezy all day as more pollen and live oak blossoms fly about further coating everything.
The back yard looks like a yard sale without the price tags again with patio furniture on the lawn and plants crowded on the open patio. The refinished covered patio floor is curing and not smelling so nauseatingly bad today. We can walk on it lightly but not put anything back on it for a couple of more days. Happily it does look like slate in a muted terra cotta finish, as we had envisioned.
A lone sawhorse blocks the driveway entrance at the road so the epoxy filling the myriad cracks can cure another day. Our vehicles park on the edge of the lawn near the road, doing no damage to the grass as it is so dry out there and concrete hard. The front porch is off limits with resurfacing curing going on for another day or two. The result is worth the four days’ disruption so far. It’s certainly inconvenient but not the nightmare of kitchen or master bath remodeling–because it’s outside.
Less news makes it out of Madison these days, but by no means is the nastiness letting up. It’s getting worse if anything, just apparently not of interest to the LSM since the capitol has been reclaimed. Things are brewing in the April 5th election for state Supreme Court, pitting the conservative incumbent against a very leftwing challenger who has all the union thugs backing her. The electioneering ads on her side could make one think it’s Belfast and not Wisconsin. -
I figure Lindsay Graham drinks fruit flavored beer.
Fruit-flavored beer shouldn’t be confused with sugar in the tank. Not at all the same thing.
🙂
-
I figure Lindsay Graham drinks fruit flavored beer.
Fruit-flavored beer shouldn’t be confused with sugar in the tank. Not at all the same thing.
🙂 -
#140 Dude
(First time I’ve been to Google today and it has an ice cream theme on its logo.) It was Twisted Tea radio commercials where I heard the concept. Looks like it may be more of a home-brew idea and not so much store-bought. Saw some Hard Lemonade recipes too. -
#140 Dude
(First time I’ve been to Google today and it has an ice cream theme on its logo.) It was Twisted Tea radio commercials where I heard the concept. Looks like it may be more of a home-brew idea and not so much store-bought. Saw some Hard Lemonade recipes too. -
Here is one for Dude. Ought to his cup of ..tea. I stopped for a tour of the brewery last week. They had this on tap but I did not get to try it.
http://texasbeer.blogspot.com/2011/03/shiner-ruby-redbird.html
-
Here is one for Dude. Ought to his cup of ..tea. I stopped for a tour of the brewery last week. They had this on tap but I did not get to try it.
http://texasbeer.blogspot.com/2011/03/shiner-ruby-redbird.html -
I bought some Blu Bell “Happy Tracks” flavor. It’s vanilla with lots Of chocolate swirled in and full of something like miniature Reeses peanut butter cups. Pretty good, but pretty rich.
It’s no replacement for Tin Roof, though. Which does not have marshmallows, dammit. 🙂 -
I bought some Blu Bell “Happy Tracks” flavor. It’s vanilla with lots Of chocolate swirled in and full of something like miniature Reeses peanut butter cups. Pretty good, but pretty rich.
It’s no replacement for Tin Roof, though. Which does not have marshmallows, dammit. 🙂 -
Hard iced tea and similar are “fermented malt beverages”. Beer has hops in it, plus the malt is roasted to varying degrees. Mead has honey flavors, true hard cider and perry, etc. retain lots of flavor from their ingredient fruits. (they end up tasting like a dry white wine with a bit of a finish like the component fruit.
The idea behind “fermented malt beverages” is to brew as flavor-free a base as possible, then flavor it with lemon or whatever to make hard lemonade, hard iced tea, or whatever.
-
Hard iced tea and similar are “fermented malt beverages”. Beer has hops in it, plus the malt is roasted to varying degrees. Mead has honey flavors, true hard cider and perry, etc. retain lots of flavor from their ingredient fruits. (they end up tasting like a dry white wine with a bit of a finish like the component fruit.
The idea behind “fermented malt beverages” is to brew as flavor-free a base as possible, then flavor it with lemon or whatever to make hard lemonade, hard iced tea, or whatever. -
It’s no replacement for Tin Roof, though. Which does not have marshmallows, dammit. 🙂
If it did, wouldn’t it be rocky road?
-
It’s no replacement for Tin Roof, though. Which does not have marshmallows, dammit. 🙂
If it did, wouldn’t it be rocky road?
-
GoatDude,
Now that’s interesting. I’d give it a shot, but to be honest I’m not too keen on grapefruit. Combined with beer it could be good though. You could use some of the grapefruit bitterness in lieu of the bittering hops. As long as a good balance is maintained between the malty body and bitterness I reckon it might be good.
I was skeptical of that chelada stuff before I tried it too. Turned out I kinda liked it after it was all said and done. Wouldn’t want much of it, but good in limited doses.
-
GoatDude,
Now that’s interesting. I’d give it a shot, but to be honest I’m not too keen on grapefruit. Combined with beer it could be good though. You could use some of the grapefruit bitterness in lieu of the bittering hops. As long as a good balance is maintained between the malty body and bitterness I reckon it might be good.
I was skeptical of that chelada stuff before I tried it too. Turned out I kinda liked it after it was all said and done. Wouldn’t want much of it, but good in limited doses. -
Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller: The President of the United States bombs a Muslim country, and some nobody in Florida burns a Koran. Guess which one’s to blame for rioting in Afghanistan?
Excellent question.
-
Jim Treacher at The Daily Caller: The President of the United States bombs a Muslim country, and some nobody in Florida burns a Koran. Guess which one’s to blame for rioting in Afghanistan?
Excellent question. -
The first “fruit beer” I ever had was a Gatorade flavored malt liquor. I still get a little queasy just thinking about it.
-
The first “fruit beer” I ever had was a Gatorade flavored malt liquor. I still get a little queasy just thinking about it.
-
I always get queasy when yall start talking about so-called beer.
-
I always get queasy when yall start talking about so-called beer.
-
You could use some of the grapefruit bitterness in lieu of the bittering hops.
Interesting, I had not thought of that. Makes sense though.
-
You could use some of the grapefruit bitterness in lieu of the bittering hops.
Interesting, I had not thought of that. Makes sense though.
-
I had a margarita in El Paso that had a dash of grapefruit in it. It was quite tasty.
-
I had a margarita in El Paso that had a dash of grapefruit in it. It was quite tasty.
-
Gatorade is a fruit?
-
Gatorade is a fruit?
-
It has a “fruit” flavor?
btw – it makes a decent mixer. 😉
-
It has a “fruit” flavor?
btw – it makes a decent mixer. 😉 -
#158 Hence the quotes.
There’s a Facebook page entitled One million strong to bring back Hop’n Gator. They’re up to a whopping 33 strong after over a year. -
Anybody ever get to try a ‘Billy’ beer?
-
Anybody ever get to try a ‘Billy’ beer?
-
I spent several years in Germany. in the land of 1500 beers I quelled many a hangover with a drink they called Cola Schaupum (i think I spelled that right). It was a mix of pilsner and Fanta cola.
Bamberg was the birth place of Rauchbier (smoke beer). This mess seemed nearly as thick as molasses and tasted like a good leaf fire smells.
Some of the Christmas beers from around the country are actually pretty fruity in flavor.
I am sure many of y’all have tried boiler makers. In Rudesheim they produce one of the best brandies I have ever warmed over a flame. Germans produce a dark beer that is to die for and I dang near did. I loved mixing Ausbach Uralt brandy form Rudesheim with the dark beers. Great taste and flavor mixtures.
-
I spent several years in Germany. in the land of 1500 beers I quelled many a hangover with a drink they called Cola Schaupum (i think I spelled that right). It was a mix of pilsner and Fanta cola.
Bamberg was the birth place of Rauchbier (smoke beer). This mess seemed nearly as thick as molasses and tasted like a good leaf fire smells.
Some of the Christmas beers from around the country are actually pretty fruity in flavor.
I am sure many of y’all have tried boiler makers. In Rudesheim they produce one of the best brandies I have ever warmed over a flame. Germans produce a dark beer that is to die for and I dang near did. I loved mixing Ausbach Uralt brandy form Rudesheim with the dark beers. Great taste and flavor mixtures. -
goattracker
I tried Billy Beer. Twernt nothing to get hung up on. Pearl Brewing made the beer you might have purchased in Texas.
-
goattracker
I tried Billy Beer. Twernt nothing to get hung up on. Pearl Brewing made the beer you might have purchased in Texas. -
Scotch Buy beer was horrible. If you mix it with moonshine, your taste buds get numb quicker so you can’t taste it as much.
/PSA
-
Scotch Buy beer was horrible. If you mix it with moonshine, your taste buds get numb quicker so you can’t taste it as much.
/PSA -
I really like fresh squeezed lemonade and I really like beer. I have found that the Mikes Hard Lemonade, the original flavor, is outstanding.
As far as breakfast beers go it is pretty hard to beat a Heinekin. -
I really like fresh squeezed lemonade and I really like beer. I have found that the Mikes Hard Lemonade, the original flavor, is outstanding.
As far as breakfast beers go it is pretty hard to beat a Heinekin. -
Though a young teenager, I learned to drink beer in Germany — but it was pretty
much exclusively the seven or eight beers brewed in Munich. -
Though a young teenager, I learned to drink beer in Germany — but it was pretty
much exclusively the seven or eight beers brewed in Munich. -
Heh! I still have a coupla Hop’n Gator cans in my collection. Never have actually tried the stuff though.
-
Heh! I still have a coupla Hop’n Gator cans in my collection. Never have actually tried the stuff though.
-
Nutty as an Imam
DURHAM, N.C. – Authorities say the woman who falsely claimed she was raped by Duke lacrosse players has been accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the chest at a North Carolina home.
Durham police say 32-year-old Crystal Mangum was arrested Sunday morning several hours after the stabbing that seriously injured her 46-year-old boyfriend.
Investigators said the two were arguing but didn’t release any other details.
Mangum is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. She is being held without bond, and jail officials did not know If she had an attorney.
Mangum was convicted in December of several misdemeanor charges, including child abuse, in a fire that nearly destroyed her home.
As for her rape claims, the state attorney general’s office later concluded there was no credible evidence an attack ever occurred.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/03/police-duke-lacrosse-accuser-stabbed-boyfriend/?test=latestnews
-
Nutty as an Imam
DURHAM, N.C. – Authorities say the woman who falsely claimed she was raped by Duke lacrosse players has been accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the chest at a North Carolina home.
Durham police say 32-year-old Crystal Mangum was arrested Sunday morning several hours after the stabbing that seriously injured her 46-year-old boyfriend.
Investigators said the two were arguing but didn’t release any other details.
Mangum is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. She is being held without bond, and jail officials did not know If she had an attorney.
Mangum was convicted in December of several misdemeanor charges, including child abuse, in a fire that nearly destroyed her home.
As for her rape claims, the state attorney general’s office later concluded there was no credible evidence an attack ever occurred.http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/03/police-duke-lacrosse-accuser-stabbed-boyfriend/?test=latestnews
-
As far as the moooooslims go, it strikes me that any group that is not willing to live and let live, WHICH THE FRIGGIN MOOOSLIMS WILL NOT, doesn’t merit any consideration of their feelings what so ever. IF those camel raping stone age buttheads can’t police their own then to hell with them. If they choose to shoot from a moooooslim elementary school or mosque so what – bomb them straight to allah/satan (from the department of repetitive redundancies department). If you really want to make a point spray them with pigs blood and guts first then bomb them and perhaps the rest will understand that we mean business.
It is a religious war for them and we should be fighting it as such. -
As far as the moooooslims go, it strikes me that any group that is not willing to live and let live, WHICH THE FRIGGIN MOOOSLIMS WILL NOT, doesn’t merit any consideration of their feelings what so ever. IF those camel raping stone age buttheads can’t police their own then to hell with them. If they choose to shoot from a moooooslim elementary school or mosque so what – bomb them straight to allah/satan (from the department of repetitive redundancies department). If you really want to make a point spray them with pigs blood and guts first then bomb them and perhaps the rest will understand that we mean business.
It is a religious war for them and we should be fighting it as such. -
#149 Shannon
I saw Happy Tracks and was going to buy it & try it, but then saw they had Tin Roof today so got that instead. -
#149 Shannon
I saw Happy Tracks and was going to buy it & try it, but then saw they had Tin Roof today so got that instead. -
This brief video clip will set everyone straight on book burning, rioting in the streets, and the like. Worth the watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB8ABt9ahg4&feature=player_embedded
-
This brief video clip will set everyone straight on book burning, rioting in the streets, and the like. Worth the watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB8ABt9ahg4&feature=player_embedded -
#171 EG
Very cute, and right on, too. -
#171 EG
Very cute, and right on, too. -
#169 Bones
It is a religious war for them and we should be fighting it as such.
Methinks you go too far here. I see fighting jihadis as more like eradicating pests — disease-carrying mosquitos, plague rats, etc. More public health and less religious fervor, please.
-
#169 Bones
It is a religious war for them and we should be fighting it as such.
Methinks you go too far here. I see fighting jihadis as more like eradicating pests — disease-carrying mosquitos, plague rats, etc. More public health and less religious fervor, please.
-
Drop satellite dishes and Barbie dolls. They’re cheaper than bombs, and more effective in the long run.
-
Drop satellite dishes and Barbie dolls. They’re cheaper than bombs, and more effective in the long run.
-
#160 Hamous
One million strong to bring back Hop’n Gator
I thought I would go through the 33 fans to see if I recognized any Couch Critters. But of course people use their real names in FaceBook. How would I know if “Pericles Manthos” was our HeadShaker or our gtotracker42 ?? 🙂
-
Pearl Beer and Shiner. My Dad brought those along on many weekend camp outs on Redfish Island, Smith Point, Double Bayou, and spoil islands that no longer exist. I must have sent hundreds of stubbies to the bottom of Galveston, Dickinson, and tributaries to those bays with a b-b gun. Red Stripe is a tasty Lager in its’ own right. Drinking beer from a stubbie recalls old times.
-
Pearl Beer and Shiner. My Dad brought those along on many weekend camp outs on Redfish Island, Smith Point, Double Bayou, and spoil islands that no longer exist. I must have sent hundreds of stubbies to the bottom of Galveston, Dickinson, and tributaries to those bays with a b-b gun. Red Stripe is a tasty Lager in its’ own right. Drinking beer from a stubbie recalls old times.
-
Germans produce a dark beer that is to die for and I dang near did.
And ain’t it just the dern good fortune for all us that never happened.
-
Germans produce a dark beer that is to die for and I dang near did.
And ain’t it just the dern good fortune for all us that never happened.
-
Sergei #109
Texpat calls them all posers. I imagine its because he has a long list of those serving or who have served who will tell us not danger was present.
For a guy who got pizzed off about somebody saying that folks were making Jones out to be a hero, you certainly are taking a lot of time telling us that the folks who have to bear the burden of his actions shouldn’t be heard because Jones right to put them in danger is more important to them.
For the entire five plus year history of Lone Star Times, I focused on ignoring Sarge and succeeded almost all of that time. I never thought he was a person to be taken seriously and so I did what I did and tolerated his endless rants and howlings at the moon.
Sarge has continued his descent into moonbatsh*t craziness and I really have paid little attention and cared even less. However, during the recent campaign season in Texas, he got my attention with his remarkably vicious attacks on our friend, David Jennings. Sarge began to fabricate lies and insinuate things about David which were so farfetched, so ridiculous I thought perhaps he had gone off the deep end.
Sarge’s bizarre adventure into political wonderland as he transformed his persona from the most diligent and unapologetic acolyte of the mainstream Republican Party into some kind of revolutionary Che Guevara of the Tea Party was a sight to behold. It was also one to generate deep laughter and gobsmacked wonder, given the absurd chutzpah required. Sarge, during the more than five years of LST was the most overbearing, obnoxious and unrelenting promoter of all things officially GOP that ever appeared on the pages of that website.
Now comes Sarge with some newly discovered deep understanding of the intricate meanderings of Islam and the Ummah and why we should tread so lightly in order to avoid offending the hypersensitivities of Islamic suicide addicts. There are times when one must just take a deep breath and wonder at the intricate and fabulous delusions to which humans subject themselves.
Put on your Dhimmi hats, bow down and hope the Ayatollahs don’t get ya’ !
Good grief.
The quote I provide above is an example of the dissembling, bitter and quite mad hatter Sarge has become. There is nothing factual or tangential to truth there and it illustrates, quite clearly, why I have avoided the silly old coot all these years. I do not need to bore anyone with refuting his nonsense since it is so obviously the rambling incantations of a lunatic.
The very idea I might endorse some idiot burning a Koran, insulting Roman Catholics, mocking Protestants or Hindus or any other religion is false upon its face and renders anything else Sarge may ever say irrelevant.
-
Sergei #109
Texpat calls them all posers. I imagine its because he has a long list of those serving or who have served who will tell us not danger was present.
For a guy who got pizzed off about somebody saying that folks were making Jones out to be a hero, you certainly are taking a lot of time telling us that the folks who have to bear the burden of his actions shouldn’t be heard because Jones right to put them in danger is more important to them.For the entire five plus year history of Lone Star Times, I focused on ignoring Sarge and succeeded almost all of that time. I never thought he was a person to be taken seriously and so I did what I did and tolerated his endless rants and howlings at the moon.
Sarge has continued his descent into moonbatsh*t craziness and I really have paid little attention and cared even less. However, during the recent campaign season in Texas, he got my attention with his remarkably vicious attacks on our friend, David Jennings. Sarge began to fabricate lies and insinuate things about David which were so farfetched, so ridiculous I thought perhaps he had gone off the deep end.
Sarge’s bizarre adventure into political wonderland as he transformed his persona from the most diligent and unapologetic acolyte of the mainstream Republican Party into some kind of revolutionary Che Guevara of the Tea Party was a sight to behold. It was also one to generate deep laughter and gobsmacked wonder, given the absurd chutzpah required. Sarge, during the more than five years of LST was the most overbearing, obnoxious and unrelenting promoter of all things officially GOP that ever appeared on the pages of that website.
Now comes Sarge with some newly discovered deep understanding of the intricate meanderings of Islam and the Ummah and why we should tread so lightly in order to avoid offending the hypersensitivities of Islamic suicide addicts. There are times when one must just take a deep breath and wonder at the intricate and fabulous delusions to which humans subject themselves.
Put on your Dhimmi hats, bow down and hope the Ayatollahs don’t get ya’ !
Good grief.
The quote I provide above is an example of the dissembling, bitter and quite mad hatter Sarge has become. There is nothing factual or tangential to truth there and it illustrates, quite clearly, why I have avoided the silly old coot all these years. I do not need to bore anyone with refuting his nonsense since it is so obviously the rambling incantations of a lunatic.
The very idea I might endorse some idiot burning a Koran, insulting Roman Catholics, mocking Protestants or Hindus or any other religion is false upon its face and renders anything else Sarge may ever say irrelevant. -
Drop satellite dishes and Barbie dolls. They’re cheaper than bombs, and more effective in the long run.
That would prolly work, not sure the available tonnage, but it just might work.
-
Drop satellite dishes and Barbie dolls. They’re cheaper than bombs, and more effective in the long run.
That would prolly work, not sure the available tonnage, but it just might work.
-
Handsome and I left home this morning about 9:30 or so, and made it into Lubbock around 5:30. We drove around his prospective campus, where basketball tryouts are supposedly taking place tomorrow. Then we arrived at our LaQuinta hotel room (which I Pricelined at $50) and it comes with wi-fi access. So now that we’ve eaten dinner, and I’ve taken my shower, I am stopping in to say hello before I crash and burn. We’ll head back after the tryouts tomorrow, stop somewhere along the way and hopefully be back home relatively early on Tuesday.
It was windy as heckfahr up here in the high plains today. As we got closer to Abilene, there was a constant haze of sand and dust hanging in the air. Some 18 wheelers were swinging a little over the lane markers as they caught more severe gusts of wind. I always feel sorry for those guys – those poor drivers have to deal with crappy four wheelers cutting them off and making their lives miserable, and those trailers they haul catch every gust of wind like a sail. God bless ’em. Anyway, at one point the dust storm was so bad we had to slow down to about 30 mph to make sure I could stay on the road. At least tomorrow we drive home with the wind at our backs, so our gas mileage should be awe-some!
Handsome and I actually talked on the way up. He usually locks himself in his room, coming out only to grunt at me, eat, or wash an occasional dish. It was nice being able to have a conversation with him. He’s over at the desk, doing his homework and listening to his headphones so loudly I can hear his music all the way over here across the room. I just told him to turn it down, but I can tell he’ll be deaf by 30. It’s okay. He wants to coach basketball. It just means he’ll yell at his players louder, and maybe they’ll be afraid enough to actually do what he asks. 😉
-
Handsome and I left home this morning about 9:30 or so, and made it into Lubbock around 5:30. We drove around his prospective campus, where basketball tryouts are supposedly taking place tomorrow. Then we arrived at our LaQuinta hotel room (which I Pricelined at $50) and it comes with wi-fi access. So now that we’ve eaten dinner, and I’ve taken my shower, I am stopping in to say hello before I crash and burn. We’ll head back after the tryouts tomorrow, stop somewhere along the way and hopefully be back home relatively early on Tuesday.
It was windy as heckfahr up here in the high plains today. As we got closer to Abilene, there was a constant haze of sand and dust hanging in the air. Some 18 wheelers were swinging a little over the lane markers as they caught more severe gusts of wind. I always feel sorry for those guys – those poor drivers have to deal with crappy four wheelers cutting them off and making their lives miserable, and those trailers they haul catch every gust of wind like a sail. God bless ’em. Anyway, at one point the dust storm was so bad we had to slow down to about 30 mph to make sure I could stay on the road. At least tomorrow we drive home with the wind at our backs, so our gas mileage should be awe-some!
Handsome and I actually talked on the way up. He usually locks himself in his room, coming out only to grunt at me, eat, or wash an occasional dish. It was nice being able to have a conversation with him. He’s over at the desk, doing his homework and listening to his headphones so loudly I can hear his music all the way over here across the room. I just told him to turn it down, but I can tell he’ll be deaf by 30. It’s okay. He wants to coach basketball. It just means he’ll yell at his players louder, and maybe they’ll be afraid enough to actually do what he asks. 😉 -
#180 – Texas panhandle weather is something to behold. In the few years I was out there, I saw several unusual weather phenomena. One during a dust storm it started to rain, dumping big clumps of mud on the windshield. You might also want to check your paint as the sandblasting effect can be severe at times. The tumbleweeds crossing the highway can swallow your car. Once while driving north from Lubbock to Amarillo, the interior windows and windshield just fogged over with moisture and we (as well as everyone else on the road) had to pull over – we passed from a warm area through a cold front. I could go on and on about the weather out there, but I will spare you for now.
-
#180 – Texas panhandle weather is something to behold. In the few years I was out there, I saw several unusual weather phenomena. One during a dust storm it started to rain, dumping big clumps of mud on the windshield. You might also want to check your paint as the sandblasting effect can be severe at times. The tumbleweeds crossing the highway can swallow your car. Once while driving north from Lubbock to Amarillo, the interior windows and windshield just fogged over with moisture and we (as well as everyone else on the road) had to pull over – we passed from a warm area through a cold front. I could go on and on about the weather out there, but I will spare you for now.
-
Ooohh, we love Blue Bell Happy Tracks. Shortly after it was introduced the B-B rep stocking the freezer case at our local Randalls told me it had originally been named Moo Tracks, but that sounded too much like another brand’s Moose Tracks, so B-B was asked to change it.
At first we thought it was a seasonal flavor, but apparently it’s not. It must be quite popular because we frequently have a hard time finding it in the half gallons though usually can find it in pints. It ties with chocolate chip cookie dough as the fave around our house. Nobody makes ice cream like Blue Bell.
-
Ooohh, we love Blue Bell Happy Tracks. Shortly after it was introduced the B-B rep stocking the freezer case at our local Randalls told me it had originally been named Moo Tracks, but that sounded too much like another brand’s Moose Tracks, so B-B was asked to change it.
At first we thought it was a seasonal flavor, but apparently it’s not. It must be quite popular because we frequently have a hard time finding it in the half gallons though usually can find it in pints. It ties with chocolate chip cookie dough as the fave around our house. Nobody makes ice cream like Blue Bell. -
#180 TT
As we got closer to Abilene…
Ah, a trip to Big Sky country… Sorry about the sand storms.
-
#180 TT
As we got closer to Abilene…
Ah, a trip to Big Sky country… Sorry about the sand storms.
-
Anyone else a fan of the tv show “The Unit”? I occasionally still watch an episode in reruns. I love those Delta Force guys. The cast is terrific, especially Dennis Haysbert.
-
Anyone else a fan of the tv show “The Unit”? I occasionally still watch an episode in reruns. I love those Delta Force guys. The cast is terrific, especially Dennis Haysbert.
-
As we got closer to Abilene……
And how ’bout those windmill farms, aren’t they just dreamy?
-
As we got closer to Abilene……
And how ’bout those windmill farms, aren’t they just dreamy?
-
Tim, I haven’t been to West Texas for decades, so I haven’t had to see what’s been going on since I grew up and moved away. We had a windmill on a stock tank outside Midland. Doubt if that’s permitted any more due to water table subsidence.
-
Tim, I haven’t been to West Texas for decades, so I haven’t had to see what’s been going on since I grew up and moved away. We had a windmill on a stock tank outside Midland. Doubt if that’s permitted any more due to water table subsidence.
-
#184 mharper:
My wife and I were big fans for the 1st 2 seasons. The last season it got really weird and we lost interest. I still catch re-runs when I can. Dennis Haysbert has the best voice since James Earl Jones. The rest of the cast was quite good as well.
-
#184 mharper:
My wife and I were big fans for the 1st 2 seasons. The last season it got really weird and we lost interest. I still catch re-runs when I can. Dennis Haysbert has the best voice since James Earl Jones. The rest of the cast was quite good as well.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.